Gabriela Adameșteanu

Gabriela Adameşteanu ( born April 2, 1942 in Târgu Ocna ) is a Romanian writer. She is considered one of the most prominent authors of their country.

Life

Gabriela Adameşteanu grew up in Piteşti. From 1960 she studied Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest and wrote her thesis in 1965 on Marcel Proust. First literary attempts she was able to publish in 1971, her debut novel Drumul matter al fiecărei zile appeared in 1975. She first worked at the publishing house Editura Politica, which was renamed in 1966 to Ştiinţifică şi Editura Enciclopedică. You could publish in the Romanian literary magazines Viata Românească and România literara. In the period of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu, she worked for the publisher Cartea Românească. Translated one work of Guy de Maupassant and Héctor Bianciotti into Romanian. In 1983 her novel Dimineata pierdută ( Lost morning ), which was brought in 1987 by Catalina Buzoianu on stage. You 've always refused to cooperate with the Romanian Securitate or pays homage to write articles, " but it is no more. Not lie was my only safe minimalist motto ". In the Romanian Revolution of 1989, she ventured a protest calling for Radio Free Europe to support.

After 1991, she was editor of the magazine 22 pentru of the Grupul Dialogue Social ( GDS ) will be issued and had because of their activity as a civil rights activist, for which they received the 2002 " Hellmann Hammett Award" by Human Rights Watch, in her literary work back off. She also served as President of the Romanian PEN.

Gabriela Adameşteanu is married to Gheorghe Mihai Ionescu and has a son.

Works (selection)

  • The same way every day. From the Rumanian by Georg Aescht. Frankfurt, M.: Schöffling, 2013 ISBN 978-3-89561-297-8 ( Drumul matter fiecărei zile al, 1975)
  • Mioritische passivity and Inauguralkomplex. Literary life in Romania under mythological aspect. From the Rumanian by Anke Pfeifer, in: Sinn und Form, 2008, pp. 233-241
  • Dimineata pierdută (1983 )
  • Întâlnirea (2003)
  • Provizorat (2010)
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