Dan Sociu

Dan Sociu is a writer born May 20, 1978, in Botoşani, Romania. He belongs to the younger generation of poets, the so-called poets of 2000, who are often called representatives of "Miserabilism" by Romanian literary critics. This expression defines both a tendency to take on the pose of anti-hero and biographical writing which puts an emphasis on the banality of everyday life, allowing itself to be influenced by American popular literature.

Publications

2008 Special needs, novel, Polirom 2008 URBANCOLIA, a phantasmatic neo-realist post-socialist novel, Polirom, Iaşi
2007 Co-author of: Poveşti erotice româneşti (t: Romanian Erotica ), Editura TREI, Bucureşti
2005 cîntece eXcesive (t: eXcessive songs), Cartea Românească, Bucureşti
2004, 2007, 2nd ed. fratele păduche (t: brother louse), Vinea, Bucureşti
2002 borcane bine legate, bani pentru încă o săptămînă (t: well-sealed jars, money for another week), Junimea, Iaşi
A selection of Sociu’s poems have been translated for German and English anthologies
The wall in my head, Words Without Borders, 2009, New European Poets, Graywolf, 2008
No Longer Poetry, Heaventree Press, ed. David Morley 2007
hat jemand etwas gefragt(t: No one aked you), Versus, 2003
Ozone Friendly, T Publishing House, 2002
Club 8 Poetry, T Publishing House, 2001
Translations of his poems and articles have also appeared in literary magazines in: Austria (Wienzeile), Sweden (Ord & Build,Lyrikvännen), Poland (Lampa), USA (Circumference – University of Columbia).
He has translated Charles Bukowski and published an anthology of poems by the author.
He has published poems, interviews, and he has been written up in the majority of Romanian cultural and literary magazines.
2007–present Publishes a monthly translation of a contemporary American poet in Revista Cuvântul, Bucharest.

Awards

2007 he was voted "Most Prominent Young Writer" at the Younger Writers' Colloquium in Cluj.
2006 cântece eXcesive (t: eXcessive songs) was awarded "Best Book of the Year" by the Romanian Writers’ Association.
2006 The Award of the Magazine 22, granted for achievement as the "Most Talented Young Writer of the Moment"
2003 "borcane bine legate, bani pentru încă o săptămînă" (t: well sealed preserving jars, money for one more week) was awarded the national prize to foster talent, the "Mihai Eminescu" Prize and the Romanian-Canadian Prize "Ronald Gasparic"

Grants

2008 He was recommended for a three month residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, by Mircea Cartarescu (novelist, poet).
2008 He was invited to do public readings at PEN World Voices, New York.
2007 Polirom grant to fund the writing of Urbancolia, a novel.
4–15 September 2007, Sociu was invited by Herta Muller in the section "Weltliteratur," in the 7th edition of the International Literature Festival in Berlin.
21–25 August 2007 Sociu was invited to participate in the Festival of Poetry and Wine, organized in Medana, Slovenia.
2003 invitation to read his poems at the Romanian Embassy in Vienna
2003 invitation to the PROMETHEVS Poetry Festival in the Danube Delta.

References

Dan Sociu official home page [1]
Dan Sociu's blog [2]
cîntece eXcesive, Cartea Românească [3]
Poveşti erotice româneşti, Editura Trei [4]
No Longer Poetry, Heaventree Press [5]
New European Poets, Graywolf [6]
Dragostea e un cîine venit din iad. 61 de poeme erotice în traducerea lui Dan Sociu cu ilustraţii de Gorzo de Charles Bukowski, Editura Polirom [7]

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