Conferences
Mihail Gălățanu: Our everyday wine
Sunday, May 26, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Mihail Gălățanu will hold a conference on Our everyday wine. Ticket price: 16 lei.
About the Conference
Wine is life. And it is life in itself. Life broken out of passion, moreover, a meeting of all the arts, and a synthesis at the same time: symphony, logos, perfume, a palette of colours. Mihail Gălățanu
About Mihail Gălățanu
He was born on 11 September 1963, in Galaţi. He graduated the Faculty of Physics-Mechanics, 1988. He worked in research at the Polytechnics Bucharest.
He is a graduate at a postgraduate school from Paris, majoring in International Relations from 1994 to 1995. Twice a Fellow of the French Government (1994) and the European Community (1995).
He worked for the bilingual magazine Europe/Europ, published by the European Union. Editor in chief at Flacăra, Playboy, Flagrant etc. Cornel Nistorescu's deputy at Express and, later, at Evenimentul Zilei, where he works until 2004. He is director of the magazine Flacăra. Member of the Board of Directors, Editorial Board of the press trust S.C. Publicaţiile Flacăra S.A. Member of the Romanian Press Club, the Romanian Wine Club, the PEN Club and he is in the Board of Directors of the Writers' Union of Romania, the Bucharest branch of the Writers Association. In May 2012, his company, Rabbit Media, publishes a group of magazines on drink & food: Top Wines, Top Drink & Food etc.
Books published:
Poetry: News about Me, 1987; Gnashing in Fists, Gracefully, 1993; Grandfather Kennedy, 1996; The Gospel of Barabas, 1996; Everybody's Bride, 1997; Poetus Captivus, 1998; The Memorial of Pleasure, 2000; A night with Patria and Romania with Fooleries, 2001; The Bored Diapason, 2002; My Grave Digs Itself, 2003; Apocalypse through the Mouth of a Man, 2004; The Starry Belly, 2005; Diamond Heart, 2006; Amniotic Poems, 2008; Dead Person in Love 2009.
Prose: The Craftsmen of Bells, novel, 1999, awarded with the "Liviu Rebreanu" National Prize for Prose; The Plant Street, short stories, 2001; The Bride without a Body, novel, 2006. The Plant Street and Other Stories, 2007, Stradivarius, 2008; French Cancan, 2009. ESSAY: Ghetto literature, vol. 1 - The Blinding of Tiresias/A Possible Manifesto of the 90's Generation; About Art, Mysticism and Madness.
Other literary awards: the "Morning Star" Award at the Nicolae Labiş Festival; the Bucharest Writers Association Award; the National Award for Cinematographic Commentaries, the "Astra" Award; the "Branches" Award etc.
Translated by: Izabella Feher
