The Grand Prize and Other Stories

Daniela Crasnaru (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2004
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-1850-8 (ISBN)

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An unhappily married woman waits in vain for a call from a potential lover, and a foul-mouthed mother of seven accuses a war hero of conning her out of her life savings. This work portrays the lives of people so used to hardship, that it never occurs to them to surrender.

Daniela Crasnaru won the Romanian Academy Prize, Romania's highest literary honor, in 1991, and is currently a diplomat, serving as Program Director of the Romanian Academy in Rome. Her works include Sea-Level Zero (BOA, 1999) and Letters from Darkness: Poems (Oxford, 1992). She has been a fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program, a visiting professor of European poetry in Heidelberg, and a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. Adam J. Sorkin has published translations of poetry in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Partisan Review, Keyon Review, and Poetry. He is the translator of Marin Sorescu's The Bridge, Ioana Ieronim's The Triumph of the Water Witch, and Liliana Ursu's The Sky behind the Forest. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State Unviersity.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2004
Reihe/Serie	Writings from an Unbound Europe
Mitarbeit	Sonstige Mitarbeit: Daniela Crasnaru, Adam J. Sorkin
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 214 mm
Gewicht	154 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-8101-1850-5 / 0810118505
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-1850-8 / 9780810118508
Zustand	Neuware