Ioan T. MORAR

Ioan T. MORAR (b. 13 April 1956, Șeitin, Arad county) graduated in 1981, as head of class, from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Timișoara, Romanian-French section. Since 1987 he has been editor of Viața studențească and Amfiteatru magazines. After 1989 he worked for Cuvântul and Alianța Civică. In 1990-1991 he was editor-in-chief of Variety, TVR. He is a founding member of Academia Cațavencu. Between 2004 and 2009 he was senior editor at Cotidianul. He produced television shows, working until 1996 in the Divertis group. From 2010 to 2012 he was consul general in Marseille. Member of the Romanian Writers’ Union. He has published the volumes of poetry Indian Summer (1984; Writers’ Union Debut Prize), Smoke and Sword (1989), Swaying (2000; Writers’ Union Poetry Prize), Shamelessness (2003), The Pallor (2010) and (2021); When It Rains I Call Myself Differently nominated for the Writers’ Union Poetry Prize). His poems have been translated into English, French, Polish, Spanish, Catalan and Hungarian, in anthologies and cultural magazines.

He has published Lindenfeld (2005, 2006, 2013; National Prize for Prose of Ziarul de Iași), Black and Red (2013; nominated for the “Book of the Year 2013” Award of Romania Literary), The Book from the End of the World (2007, 2015), The Feast of Tents (2016, 2018; Prize for Prose of the Romanian Writers’ Union), Seven Years in Provence (2018; Special Prize of the Romanian Writers’ Union) and Fake News in the Golden Age. Memories and Stories of Communist Censorship (2020; Special Prize of the Writers’ Union). He is based in the Provençal town of La Ciotat.