Augustin Cupşa
Augustin Cupşa (1980) studied at the University of Medicine and works as a psychiatrist in Bucharest. He is currently preparing his PhD thesis. He made his literary debut with a volume of poetry in 2005 with Constructed / reconstructed present. One year later he published a novel, The Perforators, which won several literary awards. Excerpts of this parabolic sarcastic odyssey in prose have been translated into French and appeared in literary e-magazines. His short script “The train for Bucharest leaves from the 3 rd platform” received a HBO Romania prize and “Oh, Johnny, oh” was nominated for best script at Anonimul International Film Festival. Since then he has worked as a scriptwriter in television projects. He received a European Alliance for Television and Culture bursary in 2006 and participated to “Les Jeux du Francophonie” in 2009, Beirut. In 2010, Cupşa was invited to Literaturwerkstatt, Berlin for a public reading among other writers in the Rumaniche Quasiliteratur programme. He is preparing a new book, a collection of his best short stories. Augustin Cupşa is a member of the literary group Les Suites du Phenix ( www.lessuitesduphenix.org).
News
Transcript - the Macedonia Issue
Word Express writers Aleksandra Dimitrova, Elizabeta Bakovska and Jovica
Ivanovski feature in Literature Across Frontiers's trilingual review of
writing in translation.
Sha'ar International Poetry Festival
18th - 24th October 2010
poets
Netalie Braun (Israel),
Gokçenur Çelebioğlu (Turkey),
Ivan Hristov(Bulgaria),
Ana Ristovic (Serbia) and
Anat Zekharia (Israel) to collaborate and perform in Tel Aviv.
Found in Translation
"I'm happy you didn't take me for another germ"
Two poems by Karen Karslyan
"when bees burn they become soft like red velvet, brittle as the naked
pupils of blue eyes"
Poems by Vassilis Amanatidis