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\n29th edition of the GAUDEAMUS Bookfair was held over December 7 and
\n11 in Bucharest’s Romexpo Exhibition Compound. After two years of going online,
\nRomania’s most widely-read bookfair organized by the Romanian Radio Broadcasting
\nCorporation returned to the format that has imposed it for almost thirty years
\nnow. At the recently-held edition of the Gaudeamus Bookfair in Bucharest more
\nthan 600 editorial events were ongoing as part of the fair. There were more
\nthan 200 participants who offered the reading public a very wide range of
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Eli
\nBadica is the coordinator of Nemira Publishers’ N’author collection. Diana
\nEpure is Paralela 45 Publishers’ PR and the coordinator of the First Love
\ncollection. We invited them both in Radio Romania International studios. We had
\nthem speak about their publishing initiatives, specifically, about two of the
\nprojects that have succeeded to bring today’s Romanian literature in the
\nspotlight. The First Love collection, coordinated by Diana Epure made its debut
\nwith five novels written by Romanian women and men writers, Diana Geac\u0103r,
\nAndrei Cr\u0103ciun, Andrei Dosa, Alina Pietr\u0103reanu and Cristina Ispas. The collection was launched at the summer edition of
\nthe Bookfest Bookfair. It is a contemporary
\nRomanian literature collection targeting the young readership. It was available
\nat the Gaudeamus Boookfair and recent releases will surely prolong its life. With
\ndetails on that, here is Diana Epure. <\/p>\n
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There is indeed a continuity, therefore, as part of the
\ncollection, a micro-novel by Stefan Manasia will be brought out, entitled The
\nSycamores of Samothraki. \u0218tefan Manasia is a Generation 2000 author, he is a very
\ntalented writer, he is a poet, an essayist and a prose writer, highly appreciated
\nby the readers. The Sycamores of Samothraki is \u0218tefan Manasia’s second prose work
\nand can be compared with art film for high-school students. It is about a boy
\nwho is initiated in his quest by his uncle, the boy is warm and open-hearted and
\nall this warmth of the main character overflows in Stefan Manasia’s book which
\nI don’t think high-school students cannot fall for it. As I’ve said many times
\nbefore, I asked our writers to come up with a book for teenagers, a book they themselves
\nwanted to have read in secondary school or in high school, but back in the day they
\ndidn’t have such a book. That’s how the First Love collection was started and
\nit is true the writers tried their best and the micro novels that came out of
\ntheir efforts were indeed extraordinary. That is the case of Stefan Manasia’s novel
\nthat was launched at the Gaudeamus Bookfair at the stand of our publishers. I
\nshould also like to say that at this edition of the Fair, the Paralela 45 Publishers
\nhad the largest stand ever to have hosted the publishers’ releases, since we
\nwanted to have as comprehensive as possible a presentation of our publishing
\nhouse. We promote all the facets of a
\npublishing house for generations, just as we consider ourselves to be. And by that,
\nI mean all the genres the Paralela 45 Publishing House is specialized in. <\/p>\n
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Four years have passed since the Nemira Publishers has
\nlaunched N’autor, a collectipon of contemporary Romanian literature, which reflects
\nthe world we live in, in a variety of ways. It is one of the most widely-read
\ncontemporary Romanian literature collections. The most recent release and the most eagerly-awaited is Florin Chirculescu’s The Necromancer. Here is the
\ncoordinator of N’Author, Eli Badica, speaking about the collection’s novelties.
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Florin
\nChirculescu’s book is, indeed, an event.
\nIt is a remarkable book in any respect, stylistically, but also plot-wise, since
\nthe central character is the towering figure of the most important Romanian
\npoet,
\nMihai Eminescu. And
\nalso remarkable is the fact that it succeeds to render Mihai Eminescu more
\nhuman. I do not know of any other such text, with such a wide scope, capable of
\ndepicting so convincing a portrait of Mihai Eminescu. It is an impressively well-documented
\nbook, whose underlying scholarship is tremendous, yet it is at once a book written
\nwith so much originality and so much humour. Now, returning to the N’Author’s
\nrecent releases, Raluca Nagy’s novel, A Horse in a Sea of Swans and Tales
\nfrom the Garage by Goran Mraki\u0107, these books happened to be
\nbrought out simultaneously, which reminds me of a tour we took in 2018, when we
\nhad these two authors travelling with us, after the aforementioned volumes had
\nbeen launched. Actually, among the novelties you could access at Gaudeamus,
\nthere also was Goran Mraki\u0107’s debut novel, Death’s petty Pleasures , brought
\nout earlier this fall. It is a book where the author continues the literary mapping
\nof Banat, something he had also dealt with in the previous volume. Also this past
\nfall, Horea Sibi\u0219teanu’s first novel was brought out, a puzzle-novel. With this
\nmosaic novel, Horea Sibi\u0219teanu has already seen his second book brought out as
\npart of the N’autor collection. Entitled Hold Out Your Hand, Tiberiu, the novel’s
\ncentral character is a young man in pursuit of his identity, nay, he is trying
\nto come to terms with it. Also, he is trying to recompose his childhood of the
\n1990s, from scattered pieces, also trying to understand himself in a
\npresent-time which is so very close to us. Also among the novelties there is the
\nfirst novel of Liviu Ornea, whom everybody knows to be a mathematician, a translator,
\nan academic, a researcher and a theater critic. After his debut with The
\nFuture in the Past, in 2022, this year he returned with Life as a Silly Joke,
\nwhich is, like I said, his first novel. <\/p>\n
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As an absolute first, on the premises at the fair and
\njointly with the partners of the recently-held edition Comic Opera for Children
\nand the Versus Association, two areas were arranged, dedicated to interactive
\nactivities for the youngest visitors. The Mircea Nedelciu National Reading
\nContest, targeting the high-schools students, in 2022 unfolded in an original
\nformat, based on vide-cast essays. The theme of the contest was The Marin Preda
\nCentennial. Commemorating 100 years since his birthday.(EN)<\/p>\n
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