Trafika Europe 8 - Romanian Holiday

IoanaPârvulescu

Ioana Pârvulescu (born 1960 in Braşov, Romania) has served as an editor at the literary periodical Romania literară , and at Humanitas publishing house for over a decade. She is currently Professor of modern Romanian literature at the Bucharest Faculty of Letters. Pârvulescu has translated extensively from French and German (Maurice Nadeau, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Angelus Silesius, Rilke etc.) and has authored ten books. Life Begins on Friday takes place during the last 13 days of 1897 and culminates in a beautiful tableau of the future as imagined by the characters. This novel has won the EU Prize for Literature, and has just come out in English by Istros Books.