Ruxandra Cesereanu has been acclaimed as one of the most important and
prolific Romanian literary figures of today. She is particularly recognized for
her achievements as a poet and novelist, especially the lyrical evocations of fem-
ininity and eroticism. She began her literary career as a new expressionist poet,
She was born in Cluj, Romania, in 1963,where she studied at the Babe?-Bolyai
University, and now serves as a Professor at the Faculty of Letters (Department
of Comparative Literature), a member of the staff of the Center for Imagination
Studies (Phantasma), and director of the Creative Writing Workshops on poetry,
prose and movie scripts. Black Widow Press is pleased to continue to present
Cesereanu to English language readers.
Ruxandra Cesereanu has been acclaimed as one of the most important and
prolific Romanian literary figures of today. She is particularly recognized for
her achievements as a poet and novelist, especially the lyrical evocations of fem-
ininity and eroticism. She began her literary career as a new expressionist poet,
She was born in Cluj, Romania, in 1963,where she studied at the Babe?-Bolyai
University, and now serves as a Professor at the Faculty of Letters (Department
of Comparative Literature), a member of the staff of the Center for Imagination
Studies (Phantasma), and director of the Creative Writing Workshops on poetry,
prose and movie scripts. After earning a PhD in 1997 with a thesis about the
Romanian detention memoirs and literature about communist prisons and
camps, Cesereanu was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to the US, affiliating
with the Columbia University Harriman Institute in New York City
(1999 –2000). then grew under the influence of surrealism and the Romanian movement that
developed out of it, termed onirism, which Cesereanu thought of as becoming
more of a dreamlike or psychedelic experience, in the term she coined a style
delirionism.
Adam J. Sorkin, recently described by Asymptote Journal as a "Star Translator," has published more than 65 books of contemporary Romanian literature in English.
Ruxandra Cesereanu has been acclaimed as one of the most important and
prolific Romanian literary figures of today. She is particularly recognized for
her achievements as a poet and novelist, especially the lyrical evocations of fem-
ininity and eroticism. She began her literary career as a new expressionist poet,
She was born in Cluj, Romania, in 1963,where she studied at the Babe?-Bolyai
University, and now serves as a Professor at the Faculty of Letters (Department
of Comparative Literature), a member of the staff of the Center for Imagination
Studies (Phantasma), and director of the Creative Writing Workshops on poetry,
prose and movie scripts. After earning a PhD in 1997 with a thesis about the
Romanian detention memoirs and literature about communist prisons and
camps, Cesereanu was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to the US, affiliating
with the Columbia University Harriman Institute in New York City
(1999 –2000). then grew under the influence of surrealism and the Romanian movement that
developed out of it, termed
onirism, which Cesereanu thought of as becoming
more of a dreamlike or psychedelic experience, in the term she coined a style
delirionism.
Adam J. Sorkin, recently described by
Asymptote Journal as a "Star Translator," has published more than 65 books of contemporary Romanian literature in English.
