Solenoid named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders
Mircea Cărtărescu, awarded the Dublin Literary Award (2024) for his novel Solenoid, has won over 20 international prizes, including The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2023), The FIL Prize (2022), The Thomas Mann Prize (2018), The Austrian State Prize (2015), The Mondello Prize (2024), and the Formentor Prize (2018).
He is a poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bucharest, member of the Romanian Writers’ Union, Romanian PEN and the European Cultural Parliament. He has published over 40 books and a large number of articles. Cărtărescu’s work has been translated into over 25 languages.
He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the universities of Constanța, Bacău, Cluj, Timișoara, of the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, and the International University Menendez Pelayo in Santander, Spain.
“By turns wildly inventive, philosophical and lyrical, with passages of great beauty, Solenoid is the work of a major European writer who is still relatively little known to English-language readers…. Seán Cotter’s translation of the novel sets out to change that situation, capturing the lyrical precision of the original, thereby opening up Cărtărescu’s work to an entirely new readership.”
Judges of the Dublin Literary Award (May 2024)
Mircea Cărtărescu will teach the four-week course
“Postmodernism vs. Tyranny: A Romanian Literary Revolution” (September 19-October 10).
Solenoid named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders
Mircea Cărtărescu, awarded the Dublin Literary Award (2024) for his novel Solenoid, has won over 20 international prizes, including The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2023), The FIL Prize (2022), The Thomas Mann Prize (2018), The Austrian State Prize (2015), The Mondello Prize (2024), and the Formentor Prize (2018).
He is a poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bucharest, member of the Romanian Writers’ Union, Romanian PEN and the European Cultural Parliament. He has published over 40 books and a large number of articles. Cărtărescu’s work has been translated into over 25 languages.
He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the universities of Constanța, Bacău, Cluj, Timișoara, of the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, and the International University Menendez Pelayo in Santander, Spain.
“By turns wildly inventive, philosophical and lyrical, with passages of great beauty, Solenoid is the work of a major European writer who is still relatively little known to English-language readers…. Seán Cotter’s translation of the novel sets out to change that situation, capturing the lyrical precision of the original, thereby opening up Cărtărescu’s work to an entirely new readership.”
Judges of the Dublin Literary Award (May 2024)
Mircea Cărtărescu will teach the four-week course “Postmodernism vs. Tyranny: A Romanian Literary Revolution” (September 19-October 10).
