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Trafika Europe 8 - Romanian Holiday
Editor’swelcome
Romania straddles two regions, Central-
Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and is
by far the biggest country in both. So its
cultural variety and richness is no surprise.
Some of today’s Romanian writers are trying
better to come to terms with its traumatic
20
th
-century; others are looking forward and
outward, or otherwise very far back, for new
literary inspiration. Here we’ve got eight
current Romanian poets and fiction writers,
exemplary all, yet with some wildly different
strategies for writing (and living).
Conceptual artist and poet
Constantine
Severin
is steeped in our shared 20
th
-
century inheritance of European literary/