The country of Bistrita - Nasaud is the birthplace of famous artists and people of culture.
The county of Bistrita-Nasaud is the birthplace of famous artists and people of culture. In the field of theatre, alongside a number of actors performing in theatres all over Romania, stage director Radu Afrim stands out. Also, in the world of literature, Bistrita Nasaud has given Romanian culture great poets and writers, such as Andrei Muresanu, George Cosbuc and Liviu Rebreanu. For almost 12 years now, the Liviu Rebreanu International Theatre and Literature Festival, named after the famous writer, has been staged by the George Cosbuc Municipal Cultural Centre and the Bistrita mayoralty in the month of November. The shows and meetings in the festival are venued by the Casa cu Lei Galleries, the Synagogue and the multi-purpose arena in town.
Dorel Cosma, the Director of the George Cosbuc Cultural Centre has more details:
"The festival is aimed at bringing before the Bistrita audience as many professional theatre ensembles as possible, as well as quality literature. Theatre plays staged by actors in Baia Mare, Targu Mures and Bucharest are presented in Bistrita, one every evening. Before every show, literary meetings between Romanian and foreign writers are held. We have been very fortunate to have as guests, at the recent editions, writers from Germany, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. We receive their works a month in advance, and we try to have at least one of them translated by the time they get here. We publish their works in our magazine, "Connections", to make it available to the public. It was great to also have guests from the US, members of the Romanian Diaspora. Professor Teodor Damian, the coordinator of the "Lumina Lina" magazine, is always present at our cultural events. He was impressed with what he found here, in Bistrita, with this combination of theatre and literature. Why do I call it combination? Because after every show, meetings between writers and actors are held, to discuss the role of literature and theatre in today's world."
The 12th edition of the Liviu Rebreanu Festival will also be attended by foreign writers and by Romanian writers from abroad. Dorel Cosma:
"Writers from Turkey have already confirmed their participation. Teodor Damian, from the US, has said he would like to come. Mr. Joel Conte, from France, has attended the latest three editions. He is a prolific contemporary writer, president of the Francophone Association from Paris. He has several new books and also several poems dedicated to our town, inspired by his encounter with Bistrita, with the medieval fortress here, and also with the art of writing in this area. We are still waiting for confirmation from Italy, from Israel. Israel has been present each year with writers from Haifa and Tel Aviv. We also expect confirmation from the Romanians from Canada. Last year just as this year we'll also have writers from China".
A contemporary writer and a very special person whom Bistrita is proud of is Ioan Pintea, at present the manager of the "George Cosbuc" County Library in Bistriţa Nasăud. Poet Ioan Pintea studied at the Theology Faculty and was guided on his way to theology and culture by father Nicolae Steinhardt. Ioan Pintea invites us to make cultural tourism in the county of Bistriţa Nasăud, the place where Lucian Blaga started to write "Divine differentials" and where the father of the writer, dissident Dorin Tudoran, was born.
"The county of Bistriţa Nasăud is a cultural space par excellence, I would dare say it is first and foremost a literary space. Probably it's the miracle of the place. 3 great Romanian writers Liviu Rebreanu, George Coşbuc and Andrei Mureşanu have in their works something related to this space. We cannot imagine Rebreanu or Coşbuc without this space. Even if, at a certain moment, they lived in a different place, they took the spirit of Bistriţa Nasăud with them. They drew their inspiration for the themes in their poems and novels from this very area of Bistriţa Nasăud. Recently we have issued a mini-album entitled "Literary places and monuments in Bistriţa Nasăud county". It is a well-documented material. We have also sent this mini-album to the tourism centers across the county. It includes the entire literary map of Bistriţa Nasăud county. People know about Rebreanu, Coşbuc, Andrei Mureşanu but they may not know about Ion Pop Reteganul or Veronica Micle, who was born here in Năsăud. She was a poet and the lover of poet Mihai Eminescu. I also believe few people know that a great prose writer, Radu Petrescu, lived in Bistriţa Nasăud, more precisely in Pietriş and Prundul Bârgăului. Also on many occasions writer Alexandru Odobescu came to visit Sângeorz-Băi. There are many letters which Alexandru Odobescu sent home from Sângeorz-Băi. Not to mention the Wine Valley, where the Writers' House is located and which was visited by all the great classic and contemporary writers. Consequently, when we talk about Bistriţa-Năsăud, we talk about great literary personalities that were born here or that visited these places."
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