Carmen-Francesca Banciu

Carmen-Francesca Banciu (born October 25, 1955) is a Romanian novelist and lecturer.

Biography Born in Lipova, Arad County, she was the daughter of a high-ranking Romanian Communist Party and government official. Banciu studied church mural painting and foreign trade at schools in Bucharest.

In 1985, she won the International Short Story Prize of the city of Arnsberg, Germany, an achievement which prompted a publication ban in Romania. In 1990, after the fall of the communist regime in Romania (the Romanian Revolution of 1989), Banciu moved to Berlin, and since 1996, she has not only written in Romanian, but also in German. In addition to writing, she works as a freelance editor and commentator for various news media and regularly teaches seminars on creative writing.

In 2005, Banciu was writer-in-residence at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Works Manual de Întrebări ("Manual of Questions"), 1984 Fenster in Flammen ("Windows in Flames", 1992 Filuteks Handbuch der Fragen ("Filutek's Manual of Questions"), 1995 Vaterflucht ("Flight from Father"), 1998 Ein Land voller Helden ("A Land Full of Heroes"), 2000 Berlin ist mein Paris ("Berlin Is My Paris"), 2002 Deborah (radioplay), 2005 Das Lied der traurigen Mutter, ("The song of the sad mother"), 2007

Awards Arnsberg International Short Story Prize (1985) for Das strahlende Ghetto (trans. "The Beaming Ghetto") Luceafărul Literature Prize