Category Archives: Literature
To the star
Mihai Eminescu is the all-time star of Romanian poetry. After a short and intense life (died aged 38), he who is known as “the last Romantic” as per the statue in Vevey, Switzerland, has revolutionized Romanian poetry in the 19th century pushing musicality of the language to new limits. He was born on January 15th, [...]
Along the Enchanted Way
“A dozen or so years ago, William Blacker ran off to live with the gipsies of northern Romania. That may not have been his original intention, but that is how it ended up. Wandering over the Carpathians into northern Transylvania he entered an enchanted world. Most travel was on horseback or by cart and sled, [...]
Romania-related Nobel prize
I’m curious how Romanians and Germans will treat the Nobel Prize for Literature just won by Herta Müller. Born in Romania as a member of the German-speaking “Schwab” minority in the region of Banat, she emigrated to Germany as an adult in 1983, after some traumatic experiences with the Communist regime – which fueled most [...]
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