Before his decisive move to writing in German after 1948, Paul Celan (1920-1970), who grew up in Bukovina, wrote poetry in Romanian; work from 1945 to 1947 is here collected in Romanian Poems. With ...

Around a month ago I was invited to attend Zona Nouă poetry festival (‘new zone’ but also, I think, ‘zone nine’) in Sibiu, Romania (in the Transylvania region). I went knowing very little of Romanian ...

“Hafez: The Nectar of Love, Ghazals Selected from the Divan of Hafez” (“Hafez: Nectarul Iubirii, Ghazaluri alese din Divan-ul lui Hafez”) has been rendered into Romanian by Sara Esterabadeyan, a ...

CAMDEN – Love may be a language in itself, but learning your wife's native language, living in her homeland, and then compiling and translating an anthology of the nation's finest poems for ...

The book was published through the efforts of the Iranian Embassy in Bucharest and the Romanian publisher Criterion with the aim of promoting the culture and civilization of Iran, and particularly ...

Paul Celan, Author, Nikolai Popov, Translator, Heather McHugh, Translator Wesleyan University Press $24.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6448-1 Though fluent in a number of languages, Celan (1920-1970), who ...

Literary powerhouse? A factory in Romania. Photograph: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis The world literature tour returns from an extended stay in China with a bundle of recommendations for the best to take ...

Nina Cassian, an exiled Romanian poet who sought refuge in the United States after her poems satirizing the regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu fell into the hands of his secret police, died on ...

The mines have nearly all closed in the Jiu Valley, once a symbol of Romania’s industrial strength, but an imaginative project aims to put the area back on the map as a centre of art and culture.

Interview with Mihaela Cristescu, before the launching of Romanian/Australian Anthology of poetry and prose, 'POUNDING THE PAVEMENT' Interview with Mihaela Cristescu, before the launching of ...