LIDIA VIANU

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AN IMAGE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE: 21st CENTURY

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Director of the MA Programme for the Translation of the Contemporary Literary Text, Faculty  for Foreign Languages and Literatures, http://mttlc.ro

 Director of the online translation Translation Caf, http://revista.mttlc.ro/

 Director of the online Publishing House Editura pentru Literatura Contemporana/Contemporary Literature Press, http://mttlc.ro/editura/

 Moderator of the Translation and E-Learning group translationcafe http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translationcafe/

 Director of CTITC (research Centre for the Translation and Interpretation of the Contemporary Text), Bucharest University

 Specializes in : Contemporary British Literature ; Translation of the contemporary lietrary text

 Professor PhD, Bucharest University Department of English

Fulbright Professor, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1991-1992

Fulbright Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998

Soros Grant, Research Support Scheme, 2000-2004

 

Member of the Writers Guild, Romania

Member of Romanian PEN Club

Member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)

Consulting Editor, The International Literary Quarterly

Honorary Editor, Contemporary Literary Horizon

The London Poetry Society biennial Prize for Poetry Translation Corneliu M. Popescu,London 2005

 

                                                                     

 

LITERARY  CRITICISM

 T. S. Eliot : An Author for All Seasons, Paideia, Bucharest, 1997; Bucharest University Press, 2002

 Censorship in Romania, Central European University Press, Budapest, 1998

British Literary Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium, ALL Publishing House, Bucharest 1999

 Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado Age, Bucharest University Press, 2003                       

The Desperado Age: British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium, Bucharest University Press, 2004 

Desperado Essay-Interviews, Bucharest University Press, 2006

The AfterMode. Significant Choices in Contemporary British Fiction, Bucharest University Press, 2010

 

 

TRANSLATIONS

Joseph Conrad: The Mirror of the Sea, translated into Romanian, Amarcord, Timisoara, 1994

 Eugen Simion: The Return of the Author, translated into English, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1996; Nominated for the Scaglione Translation Prize, 1997

 Marin Sorescu : The Bridge, translated into English, with Adam J. Sorkin, Bloodaxe Books, 2004   winner of the London Poetry Society biennial Prize for Poetry Translation Corneliu M. Popescu, London 2005

 Marin Sorescu : The Past Perfect of Flight, translated into English with Adam J. Sorkin, The Romanian Cultural Institute Press, 2004

Ruth Fainlight: Autorul la Rampă / Author! Author!, Translation, Preface, Selection, Interview and Director of the collection, Lidia Vianu, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2007

 Mimi Khalvati: Poeta din Zid / The Poet in the Wall, Translation, Preface, Interview and Director of the collection, Lidia Vianu, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2007

 Peter Ackroyd: Bucurii din Purley, Translation, Preface, Interview and Collection Director, Lidia Vianu, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2007

 Alan Brownjohn: Gasping for Love/Tnjesc după iubire, Preface, Selection, Interview and Collection Director, Lidia Vianu, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2007

 George Szirtes: The Ache of Your Otherness/ Fiorul că eşti altfel, Preface, Interview and Collection Director, Lidia Vianu, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2007

 Lucian Vasilescu, close. so far away, translated from Romanian with Anne Stewart, Editura Integral/Vinea, Bucureşti, 2009 

Mircea Ivănescu, lines poems poetry, translated with adam j. sorkin, University of Plymouth Press, 2009 

 

HANDBOOKS of English 

English with a Key 1, Teora

English with a Key 2, Teora

English with a Choice, Teora

English in Style,  Editura Univers Enciclopedic 

 

FICTION 

 Prisoner in the Mirror, novel, Porto Franco, 1993 

POETRY 

1, 2, 3,  Integral 1997

Moderato 7, Orient-Occident, 1998

Very, Cartea Romaneasca, 2001  

 

Editor of ANTHOLOGIES    

The Quicksands of Criticism. Essays by T.S. Eliot, Bucharest University Press, 1980  

Later 20th Century British Poetry, BUP, 1984  

Modern British Short Fiction, BUP, 1987  

29 Postwar American Poets, BUP, 1989  

Desperado Poetry A Selection of Contemporary British Verse, Bucharest University Press, 2004  

And the Story Isnt Over..., Anthology poetry pRO, London 2009  

The Critical Rub. To read, to write, perchance to dream, Essays in Contemporary British Literature, EUB, 2007

The Critics Dilemma. The awful daring of a moments surrender, Essays in Contemporary British Literature, EUB, 2007

The Critics Light. The moment after clarity is night, Essays in Contemporary British Literature, EUB, 2007

The Pleasures of the Text..., Essays in Contemporary British Literature, EUB, 2010

Literary Criticism: Between Science and Creation?, Essays in Contemporary British Literature, EUB, 2010