Ion Pop (Romania)

ION POP (b. 1941). Professor emeritus, “Babeş-Bolyai” University Cluj-Napoca, literary critic and historian, poet. Associate assistant at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 (1973-1976), director of the Romanian Cultural Center in Paris (1990-1993). Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Monographic studies on the poets Lucian Blaga, Ilarie Voronca, Nichita Stănescu, Gellu Naum, The Game of Poetry (1985), Avant-garde in Romanian Literature (1990), Neomodernist Romanian Poetry (2018). Ten volumes of poetry, including: Late Grammar (1975), General Postponement (1990), Elegies on the Offensive (2003), Facing the Sea (2011), The House of Stairs (2015), The Waiting List (2019). Translations from Georges Poulet, Jean Starobinski, Paul Ricoeur, Gerard Genette, Tristan Tzara, E. Ionesco, Tzvetan Todorov, B. Fondane. Dialogues with French writers and artists, collected in French Hours (1979, 2002).