Leo Butnaru

Leo Butnaru (born January 5, 1949 in Negureni , Moldavian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Moldovan poet , translator and essayist .

Life

Butnaru studied journalism and philology at the University of Moldova in the capital Chişinău (1972) and worked professionally as an editor of the magazines Tinerimea Moldovei (The Moldovan Youth), Literatura şi arta (Literature and Art) and Moldova (The Moldova).

He made his debut in 1976 with the volume of poems Aripă de lumină (wings of light). In January 1977 he was accepted as a full member of the Writers' Union; In the same year he was released from his “duties” as editor-in-chief of the magazine Aripă de lumină , as he had written an essay against the communist ideology prevailing at the time. He was vice-president of the Moldovan Writers' Union. He is currently a freelance writer.

Butnaru's books have appeared in France , Russia , Germany, Bulgaria , Serbia and Tatarstan . He speaks Romanian , Russian and French .

At the beginning of 2019, foreign mass media reported that Leo Butnaru had been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature .

Publications

Butnaru has published poems, prose, essays, interviews and translations, which have appeared mainly in Chișinău , Bucharest , Madrid and Moscow . His focus is on studying the European, especially the Russian and Ukrainian avant-garde .

Volumes of poetry

Sâmbătă spre duminică 1983 (Saturday to Sunday);
Formula de politețe 1985 (courtesy formula);
Duminici lucrătoare 1988 (working Sunday);
Șoimul de aur 1991 (The Golden Falcon);
Puntea de acces 1993 (access bridge);
Vieți neparalele 1997 (Not parallel lives);
Gladiatorul de destine 1998 (The Gladiator of Fate);
Identificare de adresă 1999 (identification of addresses);
Lamentația Semiramidei 2000 (Semiramis Klage 2000);
Strictul necesar 2002 (The Necessary Evil);
Cetatea nu e gata de război 2003 (The castle is not ready for war);
Sfinxul itinerant 2004 (The Wandering Sphinx);
Din sens opus, 2008 (From the opposite side);
Ordine de zi, ordine de noapte 2009 (agenda, night order);
Rob Picasso (Vinea Verlag, 2011);
In Nabokov Nebel & Partitions (Chișinău 2012);
With your knees on the dice (Tracus Art Edition, 2014);
Guardian Training (Junimea Verlag, 2015);
The Protestant and the Organ (Iaşi, "Ed. 24: Stunden", 2016);
Surfing in Galilee (Iași, Alpha, 2017).
Philosophy and flax flowers, Dionysos Boppard , 2020, ISBN 979-86-1879655-2 in German: Christian W. Schenk .

prose

De ce tocmai mâine-poimâine? 1990 (Why tomorrow-the day after tomorrow?);
Îngerul și croitoreasa 1998 (The Angel and the Seamstress);
Ultima călătorie a lui Ulysses 2006 (The Last Voyage of Odysseus);
Copil la ruși 2008 (child with the Russians);
Ruleta românească 2010 (Romanian Roulette);
Îngerul și râsu-plânsu 2011 (The Angel and the Laugh-Weep);
Prose of XX-XXI. Century (Iași, 2013).

Anthologies

Iluzia necesară 1998 (The Necessary Illusion);
Altul, acelaşi 2003 (Another, the same);
În caz de pericol 2004 (In an emergency);
Песчинка - Жемчужина - Пустыня // Fir de nisip - Perlă - Pustiu (în l. Rusă; Moscow , 2010);
(Grain of sand - pearl - desert. In Russian, Moscow , 2010);
101 poeme (101 poems, 2010);
Poeme din secolele XX-XXI 2011 (poems from the 20th to 21st centuries).

Essays

Umbra ca martor 1991 (The shadow as a witness); Lampa şi oglinda 2001 (lamp and mirror); Şlefuitorul de lentile 2005 (The lens grinder); A opta zi 2008 (The eighth day); Românii, Enciclopedia sufletului rus & Gombrowicz 2008 (the Romanian Encyclopedia of the Russian Soul & Gombrowicz).

records

Student pe timpul rinocerilor 2000 (student in rhinoceros times); Perimetrul cuştii 2005 (The cage's perimeter); Liberi în orașul interzis / Drumul cu hieroglife - jurnal chinez, 2007 (Free in the Forbidden City / the Hieroglyphic Way - Chinese record);

Own translations

Avangarda rusă (2006; I - poezie, II - proză, teatru), - The Russian avant-garde I - poetry, II - prose and theater); Miniatura poetică rusă 2006 (Russian lyric miniature); 100 de poeţi ai avangardei ruse 2008, (100 poets of the Russian avant-garde anthology); antologia Avangarda rusă. Dramaturgy 2011 (The Russian Avant-garde. Dramaturgy - Anthology); Avangarda - jertfa Gulagului 2011 (Avant-garde - the Gulagopfer; anthology; Antologia poeziei avangardei ucrainene 2009 (anthology of the Ukrainian avant-garde), as well as books by: Velimir Khlebnikov, Alexei Krutschonych, Vladimir Mayakakovsky, Leonididaykhova., Marina Tsvetayev , Jan Satunovsky, Ghennadi Aigi, Leons Briedis (Lithuania).

Prizes and awards

Several awards from the Writers' Union of Moldova.
Romanian Writers' Union Prize (1998; 2015);
National Prize of the Republic of Moldova (2002);
Prize of the Romanian Writers' Union Committee (2008);
Prize of the Association for Literature and Publishing in Romania “The Writer of the Year 2009”;
Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova “Constantin Stere”, (2013);
Grand Prize and Laurel Wreath of the Poetry Tournament of Neptune and Mangalia (on the Black Sea coast), organized by the Romanian Writers' Union (2016).
State awards from the Republic of Moldova and Romania ;

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Butnaru, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Moldovan poet, translator and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Negureni , Moldovan SSR , Soviet Union