Mircea Cărtărescu
| Mircea Cărtărescu | |
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Bucharest 2003
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| Born |
1 June 1956 Bucharest, Romania |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, professor |
| Period | 1978 – present |
| Literary movement | 80s Generation, Blue Jeans Generation, Postmodernism |
Mircea Cărtărescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a kərtəˈresku]; born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.
Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994–1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
His debut as a writer was in 1978 in România Literară magazine.
Testament – Anthology of Modern Romanian Verse (1850–2015) second edition – bilingual version English/Romanian. Daniel Ionita – editor and principal translator, with Eva Foster, Daniel Reynaud and Rochelle Bews. Minerva Publishing House. Bucharest 2015.
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