Radu Vancu

Radu Vancu

Radu Vancu (b. 1978) is a poet,  literary critic  and translator. He has published three collections:  Epistole pentru Camelia (Epistles for Camelia, 2002), Biographia litteraria (2006), and  Monstrul fericit (The Happy Monster, 2009). He has also published an essay (originally a PhD paper) on the work of a foremost contemporary Romanian poet,  Mircea Ivănescu. Poezia discreţiei absolute (2007). Radu Vancu has four thrillers and mystries from English, as well as poetry from English, French and German. His poems have appeared in international anthologies and  literary reviews  and have been translated into several European languages.  Recently, his poems have been selected for two an US and a Swedish anthology of Romanian authors. Follow his blog (in Romanian):  http://raduvancu.unspe.com/  


News

New Word Express participant Hywel Griffiths sent us English translations of three of his poems. You can read them here alongside the originals.
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If you've been wondering what Word Express writers have been working on recently, you'll be pleased to hear that Owen Martell's novel 'Dyn Yr Eiliad' has been translated into Serbian by Milan Dobričić's Read the full story here.

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Using photography and music from our multi-talented Word Express writer-travellers, we've put together this short slide show with music from Ivan Hristov's band Gologan.

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