Conferences
Ileana Malancioiu: Exercises of Survival
On Sunday, 4th February 2018, from 11.00, in the Black Box Hall of NTB, Mrs. Ileana Mălăncioiu shall hold the conference on the topic Exercises of Survival.
One of the best-known voices of contemporary poetry, Ileana Mălăncioiu shall be present again within the framework of the series Conferences at the National Theatre, in a discussion with the audience on poetry and life. NTB actors shall recite from the work of the poet, a well-voiced and balanced oeuvre in its evolution from the first to its last tome.
About Ileana Mălăncioiu
Ileana Mălăncioiu, poet and essayist, was born on 23rd January 1940, in Godeni, Argeș. Since 2013, she has been a correspondent member of the Romanian Academy.
In 1968, she graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Bucharest University, with a thesis entitled The Place of Culture Philosophy in the System of Lucian Blaga. After several years, she also earned a PhD in philosophy, after defending the thesis The Tragic Guilt. The Greek Tragics, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, book published in 2001 at Polirom Publishing. Before 1989, she worked, among others, for the Romanian Television, at the Animafilm Studios and the Viaţa românească literary magazine, and after the Revolution she worked at the Revista 22 magazine, at Litera Publishing (editor-in-chief) and for the România literară weekly newspaper. In the communist period, writings by Ileana Mălăncioiu have been censored, so that the poet was obliged, in 1992, to republish the volume The Climbing of the Mountain.
Poetry volumes (selection):
The Headless Bird, Tineretului Publishing, 1967; Unto Hieronymus, Albatros Publishing, 1970; Poems, Cartea Românească Publishing, 1973; Lilies for Her Ladyship the Bride, Cartea Românească Publishing, 1973 (Academy Award); Across the Forbidden Zone, Cartea Românească Publishing, 1979 (Writers’ Guild Award); The Most Beautiful Poems, Albatros Publishing, 1980; The Line of Life, Cartea Românească Publishing, 1982 (Bucharest Writers’ Guild Award); Across the Forbidden Zone / À travers la zone interdite, Eminescu Publishing, 1984 (bilingual French-Romanian anthology with a preface by Eugen Negrici); The Climbing of the Mountain, Albatros Publishing, 1985 (Writers’ Guild Award); Across the Forbidden Zone, Eminescu Publishing, 1985 (bilingual anthology in the English translation of Dan Duțescu and with a preface by Valeriu Cristea); The Climbing of the Mountain, Litera Publishing, 1992 (second edition, not censored and enlarged); Burnt Offering (anthology), Eminescu Publishing („Romanian Contemporary Poets” series), 1992 (anthology and unpublished verses); The Line of Life (anthology), Polirom Publishing, 1999 (anthology of all volumes and unpublished verses, with a preface by Nicolae Manolescu)
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
