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About the conference

"Ion D. Sîrbu is the Romanian post war writer with the most spectacular posthumous career. He died in 1989, two months before the revolution. As opposed to other Romanian writers, his drawer was full of manuscripts, among which The journal of a journalist without a journal (Jurnalul unui jurnalist fără jurnal) and Farwell, Europe! (Adio, Europa!)

Ion D. Sîrbu was the model of Victor Petrini, the protagonist from Marin Preda's The Most Beloved of Earthling. The two characters have a similar destiny: they start from a carrer in university, they are kept prisoners for political beliefs and then they return to working on lower positions Petrini starts working with the team clearing of rats and Sîrbu becomes a haulier. For the vigilant eyes of the political activists, political instructors and informers back then, Ion D. Sîrbu was a case. They were right" Daniel Cristea-Enache

About Daniel Cristea-Enache

He was born on February 19^th 1974 in Bucharest and he graduated the Faculty of Letters from University of Bucharest, in 1996 as a valedictorian. In 2005 he gets his summa cum laude PhD in Philology at the University of Bucharest with a thesis about Ion D. Sîrbu.

He was a reviser at Contemporanul - ideea europeană (1994-1996), where he made his debut, than an editor at Caiete critice (1996-1999), an assistant at The G. Călinescu Institute (1997-2002) and at the Romanian literature department within the Faculty of Letters from the University of Bucharest. He was a general secretary of the editorial board of the Romanian Cultural Foundation's Publishing house (since 1999), than he became the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute's Publishing house, associate editor for the newspaper Adevărul literar şi artistic (2003-2005) and director of photography for the Corint Editorial Publishing house (2005-2007).

At the moment he is an associate Professor and editorial counselor for the Polirom Publishing house.

He wrote the literary chronicle for the newspaper Adevărul literar şi artistic (1997-2005) than for România literară (2005-2009) and Observator cultural (2009-2011), where he publisherd studies, essays, interviews. He collaborated with Ziarul de duminică, Suplimentul de cultură, Cultura, Idei în dialog, Bucureştiul cultural, Convorbiri literare, Caiete critice, and with the newspapers: Evenimentul zilei, Gândul educaţional and Adevărul. He hosts a radio show at Radio Romania Culture and one on LiterNet and he also moderates a TV show on TVR Cultural.

He was a co-author for the Romanian Writers' Essential Dictionary (Dicţionarul esenţial al scriitorilor români) and the Romainan Wrtiters' Dictionary, 4^th edition (Dicţionarul scriitorilor români, IV, coordinators: Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu; 2001, 2002), Romanian literature. Dictionary of literary works (Literatura română. Dicţionar de opere coordinator: Mircea Anghelescu; 2003), The General Dictionary of the Romanian Literature (Dicţionarul General al Literaturii Române, coordinator: Eugen Simion; 2004-2009).

Published volumes:

• Opening Concert (Concert de deschidere), Romanian Cultural Foundation's Publishing house, 2001 (Debut Award of România literara, Debut Award of the Romanian Writer's Union and The Titu Maiorescu Award of the Romanian Academy); second edition, electronic format, LiterNet Publishing house, 2004
• Ileana Mălăncioiu, An appeal to memory. Conversations with Daniel Cristea-Enache, ( Recursul la memorie. Convorbiri cu Daniel Cristea-Enache), Polirom Publishing house, 2003
• Romanian Writer's drawer. Dialogues on paper (Sertarul Scriitorului Român. Dialoguri pe hârtie), Polirom Publishing house, 2005
• Bucharest Far West. Sequences of Romanian Literature (Bucureşti Far West. Secvenţe de literatură română), Albatros Publishing house, 2005
• Eastern Man (Un om din Est), Curtea Veche Publishing house, 2006 ( an award for critique and literary history from the Romanian Writer's Union)
• Conversations with Octavian Paler (Convorbiri cu Octavian Paler), Corint Publishing house, 2007
• New era. Sequences of Romanian Literature (Timpuri noi. Secvenţe de literatură română), Cartea Românească Publishing house, 2009
• Lyrica magna. Essay on Nichita Stănescu‘s poetry (Lyrica magna. Eseu despre poezia lui Nichita Stănescu), Curtea Veche Publishing house, 2010
• Empty cinematograph (Cinematograful gol), Polirom Publishing house, 2011

Translated by: Oana Marina Silişte

MTTLC, University of Bucharest