Conferences

About the conference

I will not hold a conference, in the common sense of the word. Too many conferences, too many symposiums in the last 20 years. I would like to bring some evidence about an epoch which risks to be more and more misunderstood, about a world in that I lived - the literary world -, about the writers that I have met and that I have edited, about their books that made us, as one of them said, understand that no dictatorship is perfect. Georgeta Dimisianu

About Georgeta Dimisianu

Famous editor and an important witness of the Romanian literary life of the last five decades, Georgeta Dimisianu was, from 1963 to 1970, editor at the State Publishing House for Literature and Art (ESPLA) and afterwards, between 1970 and 1984, editor at the Cartea Românească (the Romanian Book) Publishing House.

In 1984 she was moved, in just 24 hours, because of a scandal with the censorship, to the Scientific and Encyclopedic Publishing House, where she was an editor until March 1990. Also in 1984, more than 70 writers signed a protest defending Georgeta Dimiseanu, protest that was forwarded to the Writer's Union and the Council of Culture.

In 1990 she was named by the Minister of Culture, Andrei Pleşu, editor-in-chief and afterwards director at the Albatros Publishing House, where she activated until 2006.

From 2006 to 2009 she was in charge of the Publishing House and the magazine Historia.

From September 2009 she is the editor-in-chief at the History and Civilization  magazine.

Translated by: Izabella Feher