Author: carmenbugan

*from the BBC website: In 1983, Ion Bugan made a personal demonstration against the system in Romania in the midst of food shortages, electricity rationing, and surveillance of ordinary people by t…

Source: The Man who went looking for freedom

Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile, MHRA/Legenda, Oxford University, 2013. Praise for the book: ‘This book is a marvellous accumulation of insights and openings…

Source: Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile

Sulla Soglia della Dimenticanza, Edizioni Kolibris, Italy, 2015.  (English/Italian edition of two collections of my poems and selected prose on writing):

Source: Sulla Soglia Della Dimenticanza/ On the Side of Forgetting

The House of Straw, Shearsman, UK, 2014. This is a book of poems about exile, memory, and rebirth.

Source: The House of Straw

Crossing the Carpathians, OxfordPoets/Carcanet, UK, 2004. Praise for the Book: ‘Bugan’s poetry is subtle, tends towards reticence, yet has an indelible staying power. Crossing the Carpathians is a …

Source: Crossing the Carpathians

Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police (Picador, UK/Graywolf, USA, 2012) About the book: Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, August 2013 Finalist for the Geo…

Source: Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police

Releasing the Porcelain Birds: Poems after Surveillance, Shearsman, UK, 2016. An interview on the BBC World News about the book: An interview about working with the files on NPR: Praise for …

Source: Releasing the Porcelain Birds: Poems After Surveillance

These are just some links to some of my  poems, articles and interviews around the web.

 

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/preparing-for-the-journey-of-return-1.1847634

https://www.englishpen.org/pen-atlas/wole-soyinkas-poetry-the-insistence-on-liberty/

https://www.englishpen.org/pen-atlas/my-archival-identity/

https://americanlibraryinparis.org/about-the-library/governance/item/575-about-a-story.html

http://www.mptmagazine.com/feature/why-i-do-not-write-in-my-native-language-9/

http://www.genevawritersgroup.org/blog/4030428

http://www.genevawritersgroup.org/blog/4467496

http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=authors/carmen-bugan

http://www.mptmagazine.com/product/no1-2016-the-great-flight–161/

http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=1204

http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?showauthor=735

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/07/books-interview-carmen-bugan

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26838177

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An interview with Alexandru Popescu in the Floreat Domus (Balliol College, Oxford)