Mirela Roznoveanu

Mirela Roznoveanu is a literary critic, writer, and journalist who has published novels, literary criticism, essays, and poetry. She was a noted dissident journalist during the turbulent period in Romania during the late eighties.

On the 10th of April 1947 Mirela Roznoveanu was born (birth name: Roznovschi) - literary critic and prose writer; after the refusal, in 1973, to attend the Communist Academy "Stefan Gheorghiu" she is fired in 1974 from the literary and cultural magazine "Tomis" in Constanta; in 1975 she moved to Bucharest where she intensely contributed on cultural issues with the Romanian Television, without being employed; between 1978 and 1989 she worked for the scientific and cultural magazine "Magazin", published by the newspaper "Romania Libera"; in April 1989, during the process of the journalists from the Bacanu Group, she is investigated by the Securitate and disciplinary moved as a " health worker "; her books and writing is banned; in December 1989 she is part of a group of journalists who takes over the newspaper "Romania libera" from the hands of the Communist government, making it the first independent and anti-communist newspaper in Romania. http://en.radioromaniacultural.ro/articole/art.shtml?c=481&g=3&arh=1&y=2011&a=110911

In 1991, she moved to the U.S. where she has continued her writing career. She is a tenured, full time faculty member of the NYU School of Law where she is the Associate Curator: International and Foreign Law Librarian.^[1]

On December 2000, Mirela Roznoveanu was honored by outgoing President of Romania Emil Constantinescu, for exceptional contributions from abroad in the service of Romanian culture and democracy. Mirela has been named an Officer of the National Order for Faithful Service.^[2]

Her book The Civilization of the Novel: A History of Fiction Writing from Ramayana to Don Quixote received the 2008 Award of the Romanian Society of Comparative Literature and the 2008 Award of the Romanian Academy.^{[citation needed]}http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ro&u=http://www.acad.ro/com2010/doc/2010ListaPremi2008.doc&ei=gltnToacJJSSgQeare3vDA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q7gEwAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmirela%2Broznoveanu%2Bpremiu%2B2008%2Bacademia%2Bromana%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DJhH%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divnso

Personal home page: https://files.nyu.edu/mr24/public/index.html

Publications

• Modern Readings, essays, Bucharest, Cartea Românească Publishing House, 1978
• D.R.Popescu. Critical monograph, Bucharest, Albatros Publishing House, 1983
• The Civilization of the Novel: A History of Fiction Writing from Ramayana to Don Quixote. An essay on comparative literature, Albatros Publishing House, vol.I -1983, Bucharest, Cartea Românească Publishing House vol. II - 1991
• Always in Autumn, novel, Bucharest, Cartea Românească Publishing House, 1988
• Life on the Run, novel, Bucharest, Sirius Publishing House, 1997; Apprehending the World, poetry, Bucharest, Luceafărul Foundation Publishing House, 1998
• Platonia, novel, Bucharest, Cartea Românească Publishing House, 1999
• The Time of the Chosen, novel, Bucharest, Univers Publishing House, 1999
• Toward a Cyberlegal Culture, essays, New York, Transnational Publishers (2001, 2002)
• Born again--in Exile, poetry, New York, iUniverse, 2004
• The Life Manager and Other Stories, novellas, New York, iUniverse, 2004
• The Poems and the Poet. A multimedia companion to Born Again -- in Exile. Eastern Shore Productions, 2007;
• Elegies from New York City, New York, Koja Press, 2008

References

1. ^ "NYU biography". NYU. http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/generalinformation/personneldirectory/ECM_DLV_017798. Retrieved 4 June 2011. 
2. ^ "Decretul 604 din 14 decembrie 2000 (Decretul 604/2000)" (in Romanian). http://www.legestart.ro/Decretul-604-2000-conferirea-unor-decoratii-nationale-%28Mzc0Mzc-%29.htm. Retrieved 4 June 2011. 

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