VICTOR IVANOVICI (Greece – Romania)

VICTOR IVANOVICI (b. 1947, Tulcea, Romania) is a graduate of the Faculty of Romance, Classical and Oriental Languages ​​of the University of Bucharest. Postgraduate specialization at the University of Málaga (Spain). Doctorate at the University of Cluj (Romania), with a thesis on the work of Gabriel García Márquez (1993). Since 1985 he has lived and worked in Greece. In 2003 he held the position of Professor of Hispanic Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Thessaloniki through a competition. He currently holds the title of Professor Emeritus. Victor Ivanovici is a formidable author of books of essays and studies in Hispanic studies, Romance studies, Neo-Hellenistic studies, comparative literature and translation theory. His works are written in Romanian, Greek, Spanish and French. Victor Ivanovici has also signed numerous translations. Let us mention: Odysseas Elytis (in Romanian and Spanish); Octavio Paz (in Romanian and Greek); Paul Celan – Romanian poems (in Greek and Spanish); Gellu Naum (in Greek and Spanish); Nichita Stănescu (in Greek); Ion Vianu (in Spanish); Norman Manea (in Greek and Spanish).

Selective bibliography: Neo-Hellenic Triptych. Cavafis, Seferis, Sikelianós (in Greek), Athens, Hexantas, 1979; Form and Opening (in Romanian), Bucharest, Eminescu, 1980 (Romanian Writers’ Union Award, 1981); The World of the New Hispano-American Narrative (in Spanish), Quito, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1998; Gabriel García Márquez and his Kingdom of Macondo (in Spanish), Madrid, Sial, 2008 (Sial International Award, for essay), A Caftan for Don Quijote (in Romanian), Bucharest, Ideea Europea, 2011; La casa del Poeta, collective volume (studies and essays on the poetry of Omar Lara, in Spanish), Puebla (Mexico), 2011.