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Biography Carmen Firan
Autoare a 11 volume de versuri publicate in Romania, proza, eseuri, piese de teatru si scenarii de film.
Din 2002 stabilita in New York, SUA.
Membra a Societatii Poetilor Americani, membra a PEN Clubului din New York, membra a Asociatiei de Limbi Moderne SUA, membra in consiliul editorial al revistei Interpoezia - New York.
Colaboreaza la reviste literare din Romania, Franta, SUA, Anglia, Israel, Canada.
In Statele Unite publica versuri, proza, eseuri si scenarii de film in revistele: Talisman, Brooklyn Rail, Exquisite Corpse, Arshile, Hubbub, Literary Review, Ars Interpress, Richmond Review, Interpoezia, Transcendental Friends, East European Quarterly etc.
Opera sa apare in traducere in antologii sau in volum in Franta, Anglia, Irlanda, Polonia, Israel, Canada, Germania, Suedia.
Participa la lecturi de poezie si proza, lansari si semnaturi de carte in SUA, la: Cornelia Street Cafe, Barnes & Noble, Russian Samovar, KGB Bar, Rizzoli Bookstore, Brooklyn Public Library, International House, Stevens Institute, Century Association (New York), Beyond Baroque Foundation (Los Angeles) etc.
Volume tiparite in SUA:
Dupa-amiaza cu inger, poeme, in Pamphlet Series, Poetry New York, 2000
Prima secunda de dupa moarte, poeme, Writers Club Press, New York, 2000
Desavarsirea erorii, poeme, Spuyten Duyvil Press, New York, 2001
Farsa, roman, Spuyten Duyvil Press, New York, 2002
In cea mai frumoasa viata, poeme, cu fotografiile Virginiei Joffe, Umbrage Editions, New York, 2002 Lumina din pod, piesa de teatru, dramatizare Actors Studio (regia Vivien Dybal)
Carmen Firan (born 29 November 1958, Craiova) is a Romanian poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, and playwright, resident in New York.
She has published fifteen books of poetry, novels, essays and short stories. Her writings appear in translation in many literary magazines and in various anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, U K, and the U.S. Her recent books and publications in the United States of America include: Rock and Dew (Sheep Meadow Press), Words and Flesh (Talisman Publishers), The Second Life (Columbia University Press), The Farce (Spuyten Duyvil Press), In The Most Beautiful Life (Umbrage Editions), and The First Moment After Death (Writers Club Press).
She is a member of PEN American Center and the Poetry Society of America and serves on the editorial boards of the international magazines, Lettre Internationale (Paris-Bucharest) and Interpoezia (New York). She is the co-editor of Naming the Nameless (An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry), Stranger at Home, Poetry with an Accent, and Born in Utopia (An Anthology of Romanian Modern and Contemporary Poetry).
Short stories and novels
Miracole mici si mijlocii (2009), in Romanian
Words and Flesh (2008), in English
Puterea cuvintelor (2008), in Romanian
The Second Life: Collection of Novellas and Short-Stories (2005), previous stories translated into English: Somewhere in the East, Light in the Attic, The Second Life, Three for Inferno, The Boiler Man, Post-Meridian, Parking, Concession, and The Russian Fur Hat
Caloriferistul si Nevasta Hermeneutului ("The Boiler Man and the Master's Wife") (2005)
Farsa (2002), translated into English as The Farce
Tot Mai Aproape ("Getting Closer") (1991), in Romanian
Poetry
Rock and Dew (2010) in English
Cuvinte Locuite ("Inhabited Words") (2006), in Romanian
Cuceriri Disperate ("Desperate Conquests") (2005), bilingual, Romanian with English translation
Voci pe Muchie de Cutit ("Voices on a Razor's Edge") (2003), bilingual, Romanian with English translation
Afternoon With an Angel (2000), in English
The First Moment After Death (2000), in English
Accomplished Error (1999), in English
Punished Candors, (1998)
Places for Living Lonely,(1997)
Pure Black,(1995)
Staircase under the Sea,(1994)
Tamer of Stolen Lives,(1984)
Paradise for Monday,(1983)
Illusions on My Own,(1981)
Plays
Lumina din Pod ("Light in the Attic") (2002)
Vis in Acvariu ("Dreaming into an Aquarium") (1985)
Vinatoare Imaginara ("Imaginary Hunting") (1983)
Polen pe Insula ("Pollen on the Island") (1982)
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