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Radu Pavel Gheo

Radu Pavel Gheo (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈradu ˈpavel ˈɟe.o]; born Pavel Gheorghiță Radu [ɟe̯orˈɟit͡sə] on October 3, 1969) is a Romanian fiction writer and essayist. Gheo is a member of PEN Club from Romania (since 2005) and of the Romanian Writers' Union (since 2003).

Radu Pavel Gheo
Born (1969-10-03) October 3, 1969 (age 54)
Oravița, Romania
Occupationnovelist, short story writer, essayist, translator (from English)
Period1993–
GenreRealist, satire, parable, essay
Literary movementNeorealism, Postmodernism

Biography edit

Gheo was born in Oravița, Caraș-Severin County. He graduated from the West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Letters, in 1994, and holds a Ph.D. in Philology from the same institution (2014). He taught English language for five years in Timișoara and, later on, in Iași. Between 1999 and 2001 he worked as a radio editor for Radio Iași. Gheo was a member of the Romanian young writers' group CLUB 8 from Iași, together with Constantin Acosmei, Șerban Alexandru, Radu Andriescu, Michael Astner, Emil Brumaru, Mariana Codruț, Gabriel Horațiu Decuble, Florin Lăzărescu, Dan Lungu, Ovidiu Nimigean, Dan Sociu and Lucian Dan Teodorovici.[1] Afterwards, he lived for a year in the American city of Bellevue, Washington, whence he returned to Timișoara, where he currently lives.

Literary activity edit

Gheo has published so far several volumes of short stories, essays, and two novels. He is also the author of a play entitled Hold-УП Akbar sau Toti în America (Hold-УП Akbar or Everybody in America). The play has been put on stage by the National Theatre "Mihai Eminescu" from Timișoara, starting July 2007.[2] He has published several hundred essays and studies in some of the major cultural magazines from his country and in some cultural magazines from abroad: Timpul, Dilema (veche), 22, Orizont, Observator cultural, Lettre International, Amphion, Korunk, Wienzeile (Vienna, Austria), Dialogi (Maribor, Slovenia), Sarajevo Notebooks (Sarajevo, Bosnia), Libertatea (Vojvodina, Serbia) Au Sud de l’Est (Paris, France), Lampa (Warsaw, Poland), Herito (Kraków, Poland), Courrier Internationale (France), Cultures d’Europe Centrale (France) etc. He has also been included in several literary anthologies from Romania and abroad, with short stories or essays. As a translator from English, he has translated around twenty volumes, mostly fiction.

2003 – Farewell, My Homeland, Farewell edit

Upon his return from the United States in Romania, Gheo published in 2003 Adio, adio, patria mea, cu î din i, cu â din a (approx. Farewell, My Homeland, Farewell...), a description of the United States from an immigrant's perspective, and a book where "the critical eye that demoted Romania also demotes America".[3] The Romanian essayist and literary critic Mircea Iorgulescu appreciated it as "an entirely amazing book in the contemporary Romanian literature... It should compete simultaneously for the title The Book of the Year in many categories: essay, journalism, fiction, even poetry, as long as Gogol’s Dead Souls is a poem".[4]

2010 – Good Night, Children! edit

The topic of immigration is also approached in Gheo's 2010 novel Noapte bună, copii! (Good Night, Children!). The novel deals with the childhood spent in the Romanian Communist regime, where the children's imagination is suffused with the obsession of an idealized Western world. As the obsession grows, the main characters risk their lives in an illegal border crossing.[5] The literary critic Daniel Cristea-Enache defined Noapte bună, copii! as "the novel of a generation",[6] the generation of the so-called "decreței". The novel was translated in Italian (La Zisa, Palermo, 2016) and Spanish (Tres Hermanas, Madrid, 2020).

2016 – Disco Titanic edit

Disco Titanic is a novel centered upon a teenager growing up in the communist Romania, while dreaming of Tito's Yugoslavia. In 2010 Vlad Jivan is the owner of a small, but lucrative publishing house from Timișoara. His teenage golden memories include a seven-day trip in the former Yugoslavia, in Split, during the summer of 1989, where he made friends among the locals, fell in love with a young Croatian girl and, eventually, was involved in a horrible deed. After 21 years, upon his return to Split (now in Croatia), he meets his old friends, physically and spiritually maimed by the Yugoslavian wars. His former flame, Marina, is married, while her brother, Renato, died in the first Croatian war (Domovinski Rat). Moreover, all of them are still haunted by their brutal actions from 1989 and afterwards, and are doomed to pay for it. The novel was very well received both by critics and the general public. Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu considered it, "above all, an exploration of a lost world... transfigured through by the main charactersʼ nostalgia into a lost Paradise: the former Yugoslavia".[7] In the same vein, Alina Purcaru appreciated that "Disco Titanic has its place in the short list of the most complete and most penetrating novels of this period", calling it "a brilliant novel".[8] Also, in an extended review of the book Paul Cernat calls Disco Titanic "a heavyweight novel, one of the most intense that were written here in the last two decades, a visionary and destabilizing novel about a world falling apart and the disappearance of a set of collective illusions".[9] Mihai Iovănel points out that, "in a way, Disco Titanic is a sequel to Good Night, Children! (2010)... After the revisionist fantasy masterpiece Fairia (2004) and the extraordinary Good Night, Children!, Disco Titanic is Radu Pavel Gheoʼs third unmissable contribution to the contemporary Romanian literature".[10] Disco Titanic was shortlisted for all the major Romanian literary prizes. In April 2017 it received Observator cultural National Award for Fiction. The novel was also declared Book of the Year 2016 by the cultural magazine Tiuk!. In 2021 it appeared in Serbian translation at Partizanska knjiga (Kikinda, Serbia).

Bibliography (Romanian works) edit

  • Valea Cerului Senin (The Valley of the Clear Blue Sky), Athena, 1997 (short stories).
  • Despre science fiction (On Science Fiction) – Omnibooks Satu-Mare, 2001, 1st edition; Tritonic, Bucharest, 2007, 2nd edition (literary studies).
  • Adio, adio, patria mea, cu î din i, cu â din a (approx. Farewell, My Homeland, Farewell...), Polirom, 1st edition – 2003, 2nd edition – 2004, 3rd edition – 2013 (essays).
  • Românii e deștepți (Romanians IS Smart), Polirom, 1st edition – 2004, 2nd edition – 2006, 3rd edition – 2014 (essays).
  • Fairia – o lume îndepărtată (Fairia – A Land Faraway), Polirom, 1st edition – 2004, 2nd edition – 2016 (novel).
  • DEX-ul și sexul (DEX and sex), Polirom, 1st edition – 2005, 2nd edition – 2016 (essays).
  • Radu Pavel Gheo, Dan Lungu (eds.) – Tovarășe de drum. Experiența feminină în comunism (Fellow Travellers. The Feminine Experience in Communism), Polirom, 2008 (collection of essays).
  • Numele mierlei (The Name of the Blackbird), Polirom, 2008 (short stories).
  • Noapte bună, copii! (Good Night, Children!), Polirom, 1st edition – 2010, 2nd edition – 2017 (novel).
  • Disco Titanic, Polirom, 2016 (novel).
  • Un drum cu Ceapă, Polirom, 2020 (short stories).

Translations edit

  • Fake, in the anthology Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails, ed. Philip O Ceallaigh, The Stinging Fly Publishing House, Dublin, Ireland, 2010
  • Lijepa naša and Pripreme za svadbu, in the anthology Nabokov u Brašovu. Antologija rumunjske postrevolucionarne kratke priče, ed. Marina Gessner, Luca-Ioan Frana, Ivana Olujić, Meandar Publishing House, Zagreb, 2010
  • Radu Pavel Gheo, Dan Lungu (eds.), Compagne di viaggio. L'esperienza femminile nel comunismo (transl. Anita Bernacchia, Mauro Barindi, and Maria Luisa Lombardo), Sandro Teti Editore, Roma, 2011
  • Radu Pavel Gheo, Buona notte, bambini! (Italian transl. Mauro Barindi; Maria Luisa Lombardo), La Zisa, Palermo, 2016
  • Radu Pavel Gheo, Dulces sueños, queridos niños (Spanish transl. Marian Ochoa de Eribe), Tres Hermanas, Madrid, 2020
  • Radu Pavel Gheo, Disko Titanik (Serbian transl. Ljubinka Perinac-Stankov), Partizanska knjiga, Kikinda, 2021
  • Radu Pavel Gheo, Disko Titanic (German transl. Gundel Große, Miruna Bacali), Klak Verlag, Berlin, 2024


Titles and awards edit

  • Romanian Writers’ Association (Timișoara) Award for Adio, adio, patria mea cu î din i, cu â din a – 2003;
  • "Pro-Cultura Timisiensis" Award for Cultural Merits, granted by the Timiș County Council – 2005;
  • Romanian Writers’ Association (Timișoara) Award for DEX-ul si sexul – 2006;
  • Excellence in Arts, title granted by Timișoara City Council – August 2007;
  • Romanian Writers' Association Award for English translations Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea – May 2008;
  • "Eminescu-1868-Oravița" Award for the novel Noapte bună, copii! – January 2011;
  • National Fiction Award "Ziarul de Iași" for the novel Noapte bună, copii! – April 2011;
  • Romanian Writers’ Association (Timișoara) Award for the novel Noapte bună, copii! – November 2011;
  • 2010 Best Romanian Novel, title granted by the cultural magazine Tiuk! for the novel Noapte bună, copii! – November 2011;
  • Observator cultural National Award for Fiction for the novel Disco Titanic – March 2017;
  • 2016 Book of the Year, title granted by the cultural magazine Tiuk! for the novel Disco Titanic – September 2017;
  • Romanian Writers’ Association (Timișoara) Award for the novel Disco Titanic – December 2017;

References edit

  1. ^ "Mircea Iorgulescu, Un grup literar ieșean: Club 8, in 22 magazine, July 2003.
  2. ^ Geanina Jinaru, Teatru la cumpărături Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today, in Bănățeanul, July 25, 2007.
  3. ^ C. Rogozanu, Poliromii, in Observator cultural, no. 198, December 2003.
  4. ^ Mircea Iorgulescu, Din Far East în Far West și înapoi, in 22 magazine, no. 711, October 2003.
  5. ^ Bianca Burța-Cernat, Romanul high-definition, in Observator cultural, no. 528, June 2010.
  6. ^ Daniel Cristea-Enache, Romanul unei generații, in Observator cultural, no. 535, July 2010.
  7. ^ "Tărîmul dintre două nostalgii – Observator Cultural".
  8. ^ "În direct, din trecut – Observator Cultural".
  9. ^ "Visuri și identități destrămate – Observator Cultural".
  10. ^ "RPG 3". Scena 9.
  • Aurel Sasu, Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, I-II, Paralela 45, Pitești, 2007.
  • Academia Română, Dicționarul general al literaturii române, Univers Enciclopedic, Bucharest, 2007.

External links edit

  • Radu Pavel Gheo at Contemporary Romanian Writers (English)
  • Radu Pavel Gheo at scrittoriromeni (Italian)
  • Radu Pavel Gheo, Bila jednom jedna zemlja (essay), in Sarajevske sveske, no. 8-9, 2005, Sarajevo, Bosnia.

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Radu Pavel Gheo Romanian pronunciation ˈradu ˈpavel ˈɟe o born Pavel Gheorghiță Radu ɟe orˈɟit se on October 3 1969 is a Romanian fiction writer and essayist Gheo is a member of PEN Club from Romania since 2005 and of the Romanian Writers Union since 2003 Radu Pavel GheoBorn 1969 10 03 October 3 1969 age 54 Oravița RomaniaOccupationnovelist short story writer essayist translator from English Period1993 GenreRealist satire parable essayLiterary movementNeorealism Postmodernism Contents 1 Biography 2 Literary activity 2 1 2003 Farewell My Homeland Farewell 2 2 2010 Good Night Children 2 3 2016 Disco Titanic 3 Bibliography Romanian works 4 Translations 5 Titles and awards 6 References 7 External linksBiography editGheo was born in Oravița Caraș Severin County He graduated from the West University of Timișoara Faculty of Letters in 1994 and holds a Ph D in Philology from the same institution 2014 He taught English language for five years in Timișoara and later on in Iași Between 1999 and 2001 he worked as a radio editor for Radio Iași Gheo was a member of the Romanian young writers group CLUB 8 from Iași together with Constantin Acosmei Șerban Alexandru Radu Andriescu Michael Astner Emil Brumaru Mariana Codruț Gabriel Horațiu Decuble Florin Lăzărescu Dan Lungu Ovidiu Nimigean Dan Sociu and Lucian Dan Teodorovici 1 Afterwards he lived for a year in the American city of Bellevue Washington whence he returned to Timișoara where he currently lives Literary activity editGheo has published so far several volumes of short stories essays and two novels He is also the author of a play entitled Hold UP Akbar sau Toti in America Hold UP Akbar or Everybody in America The play has been put on stage by the National Theatre Mihai Eminescu from Timișoara starting July 2007 2 He has published several hundred essays and studies in some of the major cultural magazines from his country and in some cultural magazines from abroad Timpul Dilema veche 22 Orizont Observator cultural Lettre International Amphion Korunk Wienzeile Vienna Austria Dialogi Maribor Slovenia Sarajevo Notebooks Sarajevo Bosnia Libertatea Vojvodina Serbia Au Sud de l Est Paris France Lampa Warsaw Poland Herito Krakow Poland Courrier Internationale France Cultures d Europe Centrale France etc He has also been included in several literary anthologies from Romania and abroad with short stories or essays As a translator from English he has translated around twenty volumes mostly fiction 2003 Farewell My Homeland Farewell edit Upon his return from the United States in Romania Gheo published in 2003 Adio adio patria mea cu i din i cu a din a approx Farewell My Homeland Farewell a description of the United States from an immigrant s perspective and a book where the critical eye that demoted Romania also demotes America 3 The Romanian essayist and literary critic Mircea Iorgulescu appreciated it as an entirely amazing book in the contemporary Romanian literature It should compete simultaneously for the title The Book of the Year in many categories essay journalism fiction even poetry as long as Gogol s Dead Souls is a poem 4 2010 Good Night Children edit The topic of immigration is also approached in Gheo s 2010 novel Noapte bună copii Good Night Children The novel deals with the childhood spent in the Romanian Communist regime where the children s imagination is suffused with the obsession of an idealized Western world As the obsession grows the main characters risk their lives in an illegal border crossing 5 The literary critic Daniel Cristea Enache defined Noapte bună copii as the novel of a generation 6 the generation of the so called decreței The novel was translated in Italian La Zisa Palermo 2016 and Spanish Tres Hermanas Madrid 2020 2016 Disco Titanic edit Disco Titanic is a novel centered upon a teenager growing up in the communist Romania while dreaming of Tito s Yugoslavia In 2010 Vlad Jivan is the owner of a small but lucrative publishing house from Timișoara His teenage golden memories include a seven day trip in the former Yugoslavia in Split during the summer of 1989 where he made friends among the locals fell in love with a young Croatian girl and eventually was involved in a horrible deed After 21 years upon his return to Split now in Croatia he meets his old friends physically and spiritually maimed by the Yugoslavian wars His former flame Marina is married while her brother Renato died in the first Croatian war Domovinski Rat Moreover all of them are still haunted by their brutal actions from 1989 and afterwards and are doomed to pay for it The novel was very well received both by critics and the general public Bogdan Alexandru Stănescu considered it above all an exploration of a lost world transfigured through by the main charactersʼ nostalgia into a lost Paradise the former Yugoslavia 7 In the same vein Alina Purcaru appreciated that Disco Titanic has its place in the short list of the most complete and most penetrating novels of this period calling it a brilliant novel 8 Also in an extended review of the book Paul Cernat calls Disco Titanic a heavyweight novel one of the most intense that were written here in the last two decades a visionary and destabilizing novel about a world falling apart and the disappearance of a set of collective illusions 9 Mihai Iovănel points out that in a way Disco Titanic is a sequel to Good Night Children 2010 After the revisionist fantasy masterpiece Fairia 2004 and the extraordinary Good Night Children Disco Titanic is Radu Pavel Gheoʼs third unmissable contribution to the contemporary Romanian literature 10 Disco Titanic was shortlisted for all the major Romanian literary prizes In April 2017 it received Observator cultural National Award for Fiction The novel was also declared Book of the Year 2016 by the cultural magazine Tiuk In 2021 it appeared in Serbian translation at Partizanska knjiga Kikinda Serbia Bibliography Romanian works editValea Cerului Senin The Valley of the Clear Blue Sky Athena 1997 short stories Despre science fiction On Science Fiction Omnibooks Satu Mare 2001 1st edition Tritonic Bucharest 2007 2nd edition literary studies Adio adio patria mea cu i din i cu a din a approx Farewell My Homeland Farewell Polirom 1st edition 2003 2nd edition 2004 3rd edition 2013 essays Romanii e deștepți Romanians IS Smart Polirom 1st edition 2004 2nd edition 2006 3rd edition 2014 essays Fairia o lume indepărtată Fairia A Land Faraway Polirom 1st edition 2004 2nd edition 2016 novel DEX ul și sexul DEX and sex Polirom 1st edition 2005 2nd edition 2016 essays Radu Pavel Gheo Dan Lungu eds Tovarășe de drum Experiența feminină in comunism Fellow Travellers The Feminine Experience in Communism Polirom 2008 collection of essays Numele mierlei The Name of the Blackbird Polirom 2008 short stories Noapte bună copii Good Night Children Polirom 1st edition 2010 2nd edition 2017 novel Disco Titanic Polirom 2016 novel Un drum cu Ceapă Polirom 2020 short stories Translations editFake in the anthology Sharp Sticks Driven Nails ed Philip O Ceallaigh The Stinging Fly Publishing House Dublin Ireland 2010 Lijepa nasa and Pripreme za svadbu in the anthology Nabokov u Brasovu Antologija rumunjske postrevolucionarne kratke price ed Marina Gessner Luca Ioan Frana Ivana Olujic Meandar Publishing House Zagreb 2010 Radu Pavel Gheo Dan Lungu eds Compagne di viaggio L esperienza femminile nel comunismo transl Anita Bernacchia Mauro Barindi and Maria Luisa Lombardo Sandro Teti Editore Roma 2011 Radu Pavel Gheo Buona notte bambini Italian transl Mauro Barindi Maria Luisa Lombardo La Zisa Palermo 2016 Radu Pavel Gheo Dulces suenos queridos ninos Spanish transl Marian Ochoa de Eribe Tres Hermanas Madrid 2020 Radu Pavel Gheo Disko Titanik Serbian transl Ljubinka Perinac Stankov Partizanska knjiga Kikinda 2021 Radu Pavel Gheo Disko Titanic German transl Gundel Grosse Miruna Bacali Klak Verlag Berlin 2024Titles and awards editRomanian Writers Association Timișoara Award for Adio adio patria mea cu i din i cu a din a 2003 Pro Cultura Timisiensis Award for Cultural Merits granted by the Timiș County Council 2005 Romanian Writers Association Timișoara Award for DEX ul si sexul 2006 Excellence in Arts title granted by Timișoara City Council August 2007 Romanian Writers Association Award for English translations Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea May 2008 Eminescu 1868 Oravița Award for the novel Noapte bună copii January 2011 National Fiction Award Ziarul de Iași for the novel Noapte bună copii April 2011 Romanian Writers Association Timișoara Award for the novel Noapte bună copii November 2011 2010 Best Romanian Novel title granted by the cultural magazine Tiuk for the novel Noapte bună copii November 2011 Observator cultural National Award for Fiction for the novel Disco Titanic March 2017 2016 Book of the Year title granted by the cultural magazine Tiuk for the novel Disco Titanic September 2017 Romanian Writers Association Timișoara Award for the novel Disco Titanic December 2017 References edit Mircea Iorgulescu Un grup literar ieșean Club 8 in 22 magazine July 2003 Geanina Jinaru Teatru la cumpărături Archived 2013 04 16 at archive today in Bănățeanul July 25 2007 C Rogozanu Poliromii in Observator cultural no 198 December 2003 Mircea Iorgulescu Din Far East in Far West și inapoi in 22 magazine no 711 October 2003 Bianca Burța Cernat Romanul high definition in Observator cultural no 528 June 2010 Daniel Cristea Enache Romanul unei generații in Observator cultural no 535 July 2010 Tărimul dintre două nostalgii Observator Cultural In direct din trecut Observator Cultural Visuri și identități destrămate Observator Cultural RPG 3 Scena 9 Aurel Sasu Dicționarul biografic al literaturii romane I II Paralela 45 Pitești 2007 Academia Romană Dicționarul general al literaturii romane Univers Enciclopedic Bucharest 2007 External links editRadu Pavel Gheo at Contemporary Romanian Writers English Radu Pavel Gheo at scrittoriromeni Italian Radu Pavel Gheo Bila jednom jedna zemlja essay in Sarajevske sveske no 8 9 2005 Sarajevo Bosnia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Radu Pavel Gheo amp oldid 1221254982, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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