DINU FLĂMÂND

DINU FLĂMÂND was born on June 24, 1947, in the Bistrița-Năsăud area of ​​northern Transylvania, Romania. He is a poet, essayist, journalist, translator and commentator on current political issues in the Romanian and international press. She obtained a degree in Philology at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, in 1970. During her studies, she became a founding member of Echinox magazine, which marked many literary generations through her anti-dogmatic spirit. After graduating, he worked in newsrooms, magazines and publishing houses in Bucharest. At the end of the 80’s he obtained political asylum in Paris, where he denounced the oppressive regime in Romania, in the written press (Libération, Le Monde) and on the radio (RFI, BBC, Free Europe). He was a bilingual journalist at RFI from 1989 to 2009. After the fall of the communist regime, he reintegrated into Romanian literature. In 2011 he was awarded the Mihai Eminescu National Prize. In the same year he became an adviser to the Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later represented Romania at the International Organization of La Francophonie. Dinu Flămând has a vast work published in Romania, especially poetry but also literary criticism or translations. His poems have been translated and published in various countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Germany, Chile, Honduras, Colombia, Northern Macedonia, Greece, Israel, and more. Among the titles are: Apeiron, 1971, Graftings, 1976, State of Siege, 1983, Probationary Life, 1998, Intermediate Cold, 2006, Shadows and Cliffs, 2010. Recent publications: Vigil and Sleep, Transylvanian School Publishing House, 2016, Spring in Prague, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2017, A man with a paddle on his shoulder, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2020 (Lucian Blaga Prize). As a translator, he has dedicated himself mainly to translations from French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, and has been awarded numerous literary prizes. Translated by authors such as Fernando Pessoa, António Lobo Antunes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Vinicius de Moraes, Umberto Saba, Mario Luzi, Samuel Beckett, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Semprun, Antonio Gamoneda, Jean-Pierre Siméon, Omar Lara, Marco Luccesi, Marco Antonio Campos, among others. Most recent translation: Fernando Pessoa, The Sailor and Other Fiction, Humanitas fiction, 2022. Most recent volume of poems: Window Chair, Transylvanian School Publishing House, 2022. Most recent appearance abroad: Primavera en Praga, 2022, published in the prestigious Visor publishing house, presented by the Spanish poet Luis García Montero, the current president of the Cervantes Institute: “The poetry of Dinu Flămând is an elegiac mirror of history. Each of his poems has something of an archaeological excavation, as it takes into account, at every moment, all the overlapping layers of time that give it meaning. Flămând’s ability to gather together exact daily details presented with the voice of the ancient masters forms a fresh whole, a garden of pleasures like in Bosh, where all its inhabitants are quite human, sons of one place and one time, but victims in the wind History. Spring in Prague is probably the best book of this great Romanian poet who is also one of the essential voices of contemporary European poetry ”.