Mircea Ivănescu
Mircea Ivănescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirtʃe̯a ivəˈnesku]; March 26, 1931 – July 21, 2011) was a Romanian poet, writer and translator, and a forerunner of Romanian postmodernism, which was characteristic of the 1980s. His translations from global literature into Romanian include James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Background
[edit]Prolific poet, debuting with Lines in 1968, Ivănescu has published almost every two years a new volume during four decades. His lyrics, often depicting a day-to-day I disguised as "mopete" (an anagram of "poet" and "poem" it was thought, but the poet himself denied it in an interview[1]), has rehabilitated narrativity in Romanian poetry in the seventies, echoing American post-war major poets. He won the Mihai Eminescu Poetry Prize (1998) and was proposed by Romanian Professional Writers Association for Nobel Prize in 1999.
Poetry collections
[edit]- Versuri (EPL, 1968)
- Poeme (Eminescu, 1970)
- Poesii (Cartea Românească, 1970)
- Alte versuri (Eminescu, 1972)
- Poem (Cartea Românească, 1973)
- Alte poeme (Albatros, 1973)
- Amintiri (Cartea Românească, 1973)
- Alte poesii (Dacia, 1976)
- Poesii nouă (Dacia, 1982)
- Poeme nouă (Cartea Românească, 1983)
- Alte poeme nouă (Cartea Românească 1986)
- Versuri vechi, nouă (Eminescu, 1988)
- Poeme alese (1966–1989)
- Poeme vechi, nouă (Cartea Românească, 1989)
- Versuri (Eminescu, 1996)
- Poezii (Vitruviu, 1997)
- Poesii vechi şi nouă, antologie (Minerva, 1999)
