Trafika Europe 8 - Romanian Holiday

Editor’s Welcome

and his latest work Solenoid (excerpted here) is a work densely allied with the great modernists, rich with elusive, allusive charm. Ioana Pârvulescu won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2013. In Life Begins on Friday, she explores the intricate web of 19 th -century Bucharest. Our Romanian focus is rounded out with a monologue from a play by Elise Wilk , awarded for its contribution to contemporary Romanian theatre. This is its debut in English language. You can also find a short historical fiction piecebyRomanianauthor andmathematician Bogdan Suceavă in our latest Trafika Europe Corner at Ohio Edit . If you haven’t heard it yet, we also highly recommend our full- length audio interview with this author. As if that weren’t enough, we’ve got two

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