Dan Lungu

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Dan Lungu at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2013

Dan Lungu (born September 15, 1969 in Botoșani , Romania ) is a Romanian author and university professor .

Life

Lungu, who comes from an Orthodox family, is one of the decreței , a child of the time when abortion was forbidden by decree. He completed his studies in sociology at the University of Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași and received his doctorate there . He later went to the University of Paris for further studies .

Lungu began studying literature in the early 1990s. In 1996, he and other authors living in Iași founded Club 8 there , as whose theoretician he was subsequently regarded. Since 1996 he has published various volumes of short stories and novels, some of which have also been translated into German.

Lungu was invited to work several times in France, for example in 2005 as part of the Belles Etrangeres exchange program and in 2007 as Writer inResidence in the Villa Mont Noir , the house where Marguerite Yourcenar was born .

Lungu is married and has two children. The family lives outside of Iași. In 2014 he headed the Museum of Romanian Literature in Iași .

He described Lungu's experiences with Europe since the fall of the Wall in 2014 in an article entitled: Fremdistan taught me to be myself .

Prizes and awards

Publications in German

  • How to forget a woman , Roman. Translated by Jan Cornelius. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-1543-5 .
    • Original title: Cum să uiți o femeie .
  • The red babushka , translated by Jan Cornelius. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-1511-4 .
    • Original title: Sînt o babă comunistă . Special edition 2013: Polirom, Bucharest, ISBN 978-9734639373 .
  • The Chicken Paradise : A false novel of rumors and secrets , translated by Aranca Munteanu. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-1483-4 .
    • Raiul Găinilor (Roman de zvonuri și mistere) . 2004.
  • Great types: short stories . Drava, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85435-510-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in: FAZ of July 8, 2014, page 14
personal data
SURNAME Lungu, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Botoșani , Romania