Claudiu Komartin
Claudiu Komartin (1983) is a poet, literary critic and translator. He has published three collections: Păpuşarul şi alte insomnia (The Puppeteer and Other Insomnia, 2003, 2007), Circul domestic (Domestic Circus, 2005), which was awarded The Romanian Academy Poetry Prize, and the recent Un anotimp în Berceni (A Season in Berceni, 2009). The German writer Jan Koneffke wrote about him: "He makes a synthesis, both sarcastic and full of hope, of the Romanian contemporary society". Claudiu Komartin has translated poetry and prose from French, English and Italian and is preparing a book of literary criticism. His poems have appeared in international anthologies and literary reviews and have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Serbian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Hebrew and Korean.Read Claudiu's Word Express blog
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Found in Translation:
"every olive is an extinguished star"... poetry from Marko Pogacar,
"the light falls on him suddenly like a guillotine" ... poetry from Katerina Illiopoulou