Mircea Cartarescu was born on June 1, 1956 in Bucharest, Romania. He is a Romanian poet, a prose writer and a publicist. He is considered by the critics the most important poet of the 1980's generation.
Biography and Career :
He graduated "Dimitrie Cantemir" high-school and the Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature (1980) with a university degree thesis about Eminescu's poetic imaginary in his posthumous poetry. This thesis became later on a book- "The Chimerical Dream".
In 1978 he made his debut in "The Literary Romania" magazine.
Between 1980 and 1989 he thought Romanian literature in a Bucharest school situated in Colent
ina neighborhood. After that he was a clerk at the Writers Union and a publisher at "Caiete Critice" magazine.
From 1991 he will be a Romanian history literature lecturer at the Bucharest University.
In 1999 he obtains a master's degree in Romanian literature with the thesis "The Romanian Postmodernism". In the same year it is published by "Humanitas" publishing house with which he will sign an exclusivity contract.
He is a prose writer but also a fantasy novelist and a Romanian postmodernism theoretician. His writings were translated in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Polish, Swedish and Bulgarian. He won many prizes such as: Romanian Writers' Union Prize in 1980, Romanian Academy's Prize in 1989, Romanian Writer's Unions Prize, Flacara magazine Prize, Ateneu magazine Prize, Tomis magazine Prize, Cuvântul magazine Prize in 1990, Orbitor's French translation nominee for Prix Union Latine in 1999, ASPRO Prize, AER Prize in 2002, Grand Officer of the Cultural Merit Order (Ordinul "Meritul cultural" în grad de mare ofiþer), awarded by Romanian Presidency in 2006.
Among his writings: "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, " Enciclopedia zmeilor" ("Dragons' Encyclopaedia") 2002, "Pururi tânãr, înfãsurat în pixeli" ("Forever young, convolved in pixels") 2002, "De ce iubim femeile" bestseller ("Why do we love women") 2004.
Trivia :
He is married with the poet Ioana Nicolae.
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Mircea Cartarescu was born on June 1, 1956 in Bucharest, Romania. He is a Romanian poet, a prose writer and a publicist. He is considered by the critics the most important poet of the 1980's generation.
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