Mircea Cărtărescu Explained

Mircea Cărtărescu
Birth Date:1956 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Bucharest, Romania
Occupation:Novelist, poet, short-story writer, essayist, journalist, university professor
Movement:80s Generation, Blue Jeans Generation, Postmodernism
Alma Mater:University of Bucharest
Years Active:1978–present
Module:
Child:yes
Thesis Year:1980
Workplaces:University of Bucharest

Mircea Cărtărescu (in Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan pronounced as /ˈmirtʃe̯a kərtəˈresku/; born 1 June 1956[1]) is a Romanian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist.[2]

Biography

Born in Bucharest in 1956, he attended Cantemir Vodă National College during the early 1970s. During his school years, he was a member of literary groups led by Nicolae Manolescu and Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu. At that time, along with many teenagers of his generation, Cărtărescu was tremendously influenced by the legacy of the 1960s American counterculture, including artists such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and The Doors. He commenced writing poetry in 1978.

Later, he studied at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language and Literature. He graduated in 1980 with a thesis that later became his book on poetry, more specifically The Chimaeric Dream. That same year, some of his works were published by Cartea Românească.

Between 1980 and 1989, Cărtărescu worked as a Romanian language teacher,[3] then worked at the Writers' Union of Romania and as an editor at Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991, he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he was an associate professor there, where he still lectures to this date.[4] Between 1994 and 1995, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and currently holds the same position at the University of Stuttgart. In 2012, he received the International Literature Award for his novel The Body.

Cărtărescu is married to the Romanian poet, with whom he has a son.[5] He is a full professor at the University of Bucharest within the Department of Literary Studies.[6]

Work

His debut as a writer was in 1978 with poetry published in România Literară magazine. Two years later, he published his first book,, which earned him the Romanian Writers' Union award for debut.[7] The post-modern epic poem The Levant appeared in 1990, written at a time of heavy censorship by the communist regime, without much hope of being translated, and published after the fall of communism, it is a parody that encompasses writing styles touching on several other Romanian writers, most notably Mihai Eminescu, from whose poem, "Scrisoarea III", he borrowed the metrical pattern and even some lines.[8]

In 2010, Blinding was voted novel of the decade by Romanian literary critics.[9]

His works have been translated into most European languages (including Spanish, French and English) and published in Europe, Hispanic America, and the United States.[10]

Cărtărescu has been rumoured to have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature multiple times, and has been considered one of the favorites to win the award.[11] In 2023, when Swedish journalist Carsten Palmer Schale had included him on a short list of favourites for the award,[12] Cărtărescu himself said that he is thankful for being included in such a list, and that he doesn't wish for anything more.[13]

Poetry

Prose

Essays

Audiobooks

Anthologies

Awards and honours

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mircea Cartarescu . Babelio . French . 2023-04-11.
  2. Web site: Poet Claudiu Komartin. Leşcu. Christine. 26 August 2017. Radio Romania International. 26 November 2017.
  3. Web site: Mircea Cărtărescu in conversation with Ileana Marin (American Romanian Clultural Society) . Facebook . Romanian Cultural Institute in New York . 2023-04-07 . English . Facebook Live video . 2023-04-05. He goes into some detail on this beginning at 55:45.
  4. Web site: Catedra de Literatura Romana - Universitatea din Bucuresti . 13 June 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100217042546/http://www.unibuc.ro/ro/catd_flclr_ro . 17 February 2010 .
  5. Web site: Femeia de lângă Mircea Cărtărescu. ro. July 2009. 12 April 2021.
  6. Web site: În România sunt 50 de mii de cititori. Cum s-a tratat cu ajutorul poeziei de depresia post-COVID . 12 April 2021 . ro.
  7. Web site: Scriitorul Mircea Cărtărescu împlinește 65 de ani . 2023-08-31 . www.hotnews.ro . ro.
  8. Ungureanu . Delia . 2021-09-08 . The Revolutionary Force of the Periphery: "The Levant," "Nostalgia," and World Literature . Dibur Literary Journal . en . Peripheral Modernisms, ISSUE 9–10, fall 2020 - spring 2021.
  9. Web site: 2010-03-16 . Romanul deceniului: "Orbitor" . 2023-08-31 . adevarul.ro . ro.
  10. Web site: Cel de-al treilea volum al trilogiei Orbitor de Mircea Cartarescu, tradus in Olanda . 2023-08-31 . www.hotnews.ro . ro.
  11. Web site: 2021-10-05 . Los favoritos al Nobel de Literatura: Cartarescu, Murakami, Ulitskaya... y Javier Marías . 2023-08-31 . ELMUNDO . es.
  12. Web site: Un jurnalist suedez care a prezis corect laureații Nobel pentru literatură în ultimii doi ani crede ca anul acesta cele mai mari șanse le are Mircea Cărtărescu . 2023-10-06 . Stiri.tvr.ro . 4 October 2023 . Romanian.
  13. Web site: Cărtărescu, "foarte fericit" că a ajuns și în acest an pe lista pentru Nobel: Nu-mi trebuie mai mult . 2023-10-06 . www.hotnews.ro . ro.
  14. Web site: Mircea Cărtărescu premiat la Berlin. 1 June 2012. ro.
  15. Web site: Mircea Cărtărescu a câștigat Spycher – Literaturpreis Leuk în Elveția. ro. 2 July 2013. Gândul. 3 July 2013.
  16. Web site: Premiu elveţian pentru Mircea Cărtărescu. 1 November 2014. ro.
  17. Web site: 2014 Best Translated Book Awards: Fiction Finalists . Three Percent . Chad W. Post . 14 April 2014 . 18 April 2014.
  18. Web site: Cartarescu wins Leipzig Book Award for 'universal' novel Books DW.COM 11 March 2015. (www.dw.com). Deutsche Welle. DW.COM. 1 October 2016.
  19. Web site: Mircea Cartarescu won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature Nine O'Clock. www.nineoclock.ro. 28 July 2015 . 1 October 2016.
  20. Web site: 2016 Winner. https://archive.today/20161012045156/http://www.premiovonrezzori.org/2016-winner/. dead. 12 October 2016. Festival degli Scrittori - Premio Gregor von Rezzori. 1 October 2016.
  21. Web site: Mircea Cărtărescu a primit premiul "Thomas Mann" pentru Literatură. Reacția scriitorului. www.digi24.ro. 13 February 2018 .
  22. Web site: Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu receives Formentor de las Letras prize . Romania Insider . 10 April 2018 . 13 April 2018.
  23. Web site: Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara .
  24. News: St. Martin . Emily . Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners announced . LA Times . 22 April 2023 .
  25. Web site: Solenoid . Dublin Literary Award . 23 May 2024.

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