Mircea Cărtărescu — On Literature

Mircea Cărtărescu

Poet, prose writer, essayist, literary critic, and journalist, has been awarded some of the most prestigious national prizes over the years, including those granted by the Romanian Academy, the Ministry of Culture, and the Writers’ Union of Romania, as well as international distinctions such as the Vilenica International Literary Prize (2011), the Grand Prize of the Novi Sad International Poetry Festival (2013), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2015), the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages (Guadalajara, 2022), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2023), and The International Dublin Literary Award (2024).

His published works include the Orbitor trilogy (2002, 2007, 2021), Why We Love Women (2004), Beautiful Strangers (2010), Solenoid (2015), Landscape After Hysteria (2017), A Man Who Writes. Journal 2011–2017 (2018), and Theodoros (2022). Mircea Cărtărescu’s books have been translated into English, German, Italian, French, Swedish, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Danish, Basque, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Croatian, Serbian, Catalan, and other languages.