Varujan Vosganian
Varujan Vosganian (born July 25, 1958 in Craiova ) is a Romanian economist , politician , essayist and poet of Armenian descent.
Life
Varujan Vosganian's Armenian ancestors were among the survivors of the Ottoman genocide against the Armenians . He attended school in Focșani and studied economics at the Bucharest University of Economics until 1982 and mathematics at the University of Bucharest until 1991 , where he received his doctorate in economics in 1998.
Vosganian was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 1990 to 1992 and from 1992 to 1996 , and from 1996 to 2000 and since 2004 a member of the Romanian Senate . Vosganian represents neoliberal positions.
From 1996 to 2003 he led the neoliberal party “Uniunea Forţelor de Dreapta”, which then united with the right-wing liberal Partidul Național Liberal . In 2006 he withdrew his candidacy as Romanian representative in the European Commission on the grounds that the allegations that he had an inadequate European profile, that he was too closely associated with multinational companies or that he was a Securitate spy were unfounded, but he does not want to damage the Romanian state by potentially taking a long time to examine his candidacy. Vosganian was Minister of Economy in the Tăriceanu government from 2007 to 2008 . At the end of 2012, he was reappointed to the Ponta Cabinet as Minister for Trade and Industry .
Vosganian has published various books on economic and political subjects and he also writes poetry and novels. He is a member of the Uniunea Scriitorilor din România , of which he has been Vice President since 2005. He is President of the Association of Armenians in Romania. His novel Cartea şoaptelor, which was published in 2009 and tells the genocide of the Armenians from the perspective of a family chronicle , was also published in 2013 in a German translation under the title Book of Whispers . On October 15, 2016, he and his translator received the renowned Polish Central European Literature Prize Angelus in Wroclaw .
Works (selection)
- Şamanul albastru: poezii . Editura Ararat, Bucharest 1994, ISBN 973-96682-1-6 .
- Statuia comandorului: process . Editura Ararat, Bucharest 1994, ISBN 973-96682-3-2 .
- Jurnal de front: articole economice . Editura Staff, Bucharest 1994, ISBN 973-96111-9-2 .
- Ochiul cel alb al Reginei . Cartea Românească, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-23-0962-8 .
- Portret de femeie . Editura Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 2004, ISBN 978-973-35-1933-1 .
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Cartea şoaptelor. Novel . Polirom, Iași 2009, ISBN 978-973-46-0887-4 .
- Book of Whispers. Novel . From the Romanian by Ernest Wichner . Zsolnay, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-552-05646-6 .
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Jocul celor o sută de frunze și old povestiri . Polirom, Iași 2013, ISBN 978-973-46-3833-8
- The game of a hundred hands . From the Romanian by Ernest Wichner . Zsolnay, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-552-05800-2
- In our footsteps - poems, From the Romanian by Christian W. Schenk , Dionysos Boppard 2018, ISBN 9781983279218
literature
- Diana Coriciuc: Dialogue with Varujan Vosganian . Charisma, 6th Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 2000
- Jan Koneffke : Through seven circles of death . NZZ , August 24, 2013, p. 23
Web links
- Literature by and about Varujan Vosganian in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Varujan Vosganian in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Varujan Vosganian at perlentaucher.de
- Varujan Vosganian , website
- Varujan Vosganian , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Varujan Vosganian , at Hanser-Verlag
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae
- ↑ Politics
- ↑ Romanian candidate withdraws candidacy for EU Commission , Der Standard , November 13, 2006
- ↑ Prime Minister Ponta announces the composition of the new cabinet , Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania (ADZ), December 20, 2012
- ↑ FAZ: Varujan Vosganian: Book of Whispers One remains who tells of suffering and retribution , October 18, 2013
- ↑ Der Standard: "A book goes its own way", February 28, 2014
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SURNAME | Vosganian, Varujan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian economist, politician, essayist and poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Craiova |