Gellu Dorian (Romania)

GELLU DORIAN was born October 12, l953, in Botoşani. He is a poet, prose writer, and a playwright. He is a member of The Romanian Writers’ Union, Chief editor of  Hyperion cultural magazine, and President of the “Hyperion-agenda of Botosani” Cultural Foundation. He initiated the “Mihai Eminescu” National Prize for Poetry in 1991, which is now in its 32nd cycle.

His published books include: Poetry: Liniştea neliniştii/The Rest of Restlessness, 1979; Esopia, 1982; Introductory poems/Poeme introductive, l986; Elegies after Rilke/Elegiile după Rilke, l993; In search of the lost poem/În căutarea poemului pierdut, l996; Poeme golăneşti/Tramp-like poems, 1996; Infernul migrator/Migratory Hell, l997; Poesia mirabilis, l999, 2000; Alone in front of God/Singur în faţa lui Dumnezeu, 2001; A poet in New York/ Un poet la New York, 2002; Kafka Café/Cafeneaua Kafka, 2003; Elegies from Dorweiler/Elegiile de la Dorweiler, 2008; Alungînd tristeţea, ca Paganini/Dissipating sadness like Paganini, 2009; The Poet/Poetul, 2010; Zece poeme exemplare din Tîrgul în care, cică, nu se întîmplă nimic, 2011/Ten exemplary poems from the Town where nothing happens, 2011; The book of loneliness/Cartea singurătăţilor, 2012; Şaizeci de pahare la o masă/Sixty glasses on a table 2013; Ierurgiile/Holy Mass 2014; Close the window. And fly!/Închizi fereastra. Şi zbori!, 2015; One hundred masters and a disciple/O sută de maeştri şi un discipol, 2016; Calea de urmat,/The path to follow 2017; The other life/Cealaltă viaţă, 2018; Gramote, 2019.

Author anthologies: În absenţa iubirii/In love’s absence, 1996; Eranos — scene din viaţa şi opera Poesiei/Eranos — scenes from Poetry’s life and work, 2003; The silent book/Cartea tăcută, 2004; Crisis and melancholy/Criză şi melancolie, 2011; Abatorul umbrelor/The Shadows’ Slaughterhouse, 2011.

Gellu Dorian’s work has appeared in anthologies from Romania, U.S.A, France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Jordan, Russia, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, and the United Kingdom. He won the “Ion Creangă” National Prize for Prose, Tg. Neamţ, 2005; the Romanian Writers’ Union Prize for Drama (for Comfort Freud), 2011; the “Ronald Gasparic” Romanian-Canadian Prize, 2001; the “Coroana Carpaţilor”/Carpathians’ Crown (Ujgorod, Ukraine), 2003; the Balcanica-Bulgaria Prize, 2009; and the “Poets’ European Spring” Prize, Chişinău, 2014. He attained the rank of Knight of The Cultural Order A in 2004.