Magda Cârneci

Magda Cârneci is a poet, essayist, and art historian born in Romania. She took a Ph.D. in art history at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and received several international grants in literature and art history (Fulbrigt, Soros, Getty, European Community). Member of the well-known “generation of the ‘80s” in Romanian literature, of which she was one of the theoreticians, after the Revolution of December 1989 she became actively involved in the political and cultural Romanian scene of the 1990s. In the 2000s, after working as a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris, she was the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris (2007 – 2010). At present, she is visiting professor at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, editor-in-chief of ARTA magazine for visual arts, and president of PEN Club Romania. She is also a member of the European Cultural Parliament.

She started her literary career in the România literară magazine, under the pen name Magdalena Ghica, which she used until 1989. She published numerous books of poetry, art criticism, and essays in Romanian and other languages, and her poems have been translated into many languages.

She is affiliated with several organizations, including: Founding member and present-day president of the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS), Bucharest Member of AICA International Member of PEN International; president of PEN Club Romania, 2011 - 2019 Member of European Cultural Parliament (ECP) Member of HGCEA (Historians of Central and East European Art), USA Member of CIRET (Centre international de recherches et etudes transdisciplinaires), Paris Member of Institut de Neuroconnectique, Paris Member of Union of Writers in Romania (USR), Bucharest Member of Union of Visual Artists in Romania (UAP), Bucharest

Works

Volumes of poetry in Romanian A Deafening Silence, Eminescu, Bucharest, 1985 Chaosmos, Cartea Românească, Bucharest, 1992 Political Poems, Axa, Botoșani, 2000 Chaosmos and other Poems, anthology, Paralela 45, Bucharest, 2004 TRANS Poems, Tracus Art, Bucharest, 2012 Life, Paralela 45, Bucharest, 2016 Poetic Work, Bucharest, Cartea Româneasca, 2017 Time of the High Poem, Cartier, Kishinev, 2022 Insurrections/ Incantations, Editura Casa Radio, 2023

Poetry books in foreign languages Psaume, Marseille : Editions Autres Temps, 1997 Poeme / Poems, Pitesti : Paralela 45 (in Romanian and English, translated by Adam J.Sorkin) Le paradis poétique, Paris : Transignum, 2004 (bibliophile book) Chaosmos. Gedichten, Jan Willem Bos translator, Amsterdam: Go-Bos Press, 2004 Chaosmos. Poems, Adam J.Sorkin translator, Boston: White Pine Press, 2006 Trois saisons poétiques, Luxembourg : éditions PHI, 2008 Chaosmos, translated by Linda Maria Baros, Paris : Editions de Corlevour, 2013 Oh, meine Generation, Dionysos Boppard, Rheinland-Pfalz - 2020, , Trans: Christian W. Schenk Germany Trans-Neuronal, editions Transignum, Paris, 2023 Vida, Visor Libros, Madrid, 2023

Prose FEM, novel, Bucharest: Cartea Românească, 2011; second Romanian edition Polirom, 2014; French edition 2018; American edition 2021

Texts in collective books in French Paris par écrit, Paris: L’Inventaire/Maison des Ecrivains, 2002 Le sacré aujourd’hui, Paris: Editions du Rocher, 2003 Transdisciplinarité - Un chemin vers la paix, Paris: Éditions FBV pour le CNRS, 2005 La Mort aujourd’hui, Paris: Editions du Rocher, 2008 Mon royaume pour un livre, Guy Rouquet editor, L’atelier imaginaire/ Le castor astrale, Paris, 2013. Pour toutes, la même langue, Parlement des écrivaines francophones, éditions Regain de lecture, 2023 De Grâce. Anthologie de poèmes inédits, dirigée par Suzanne Dracius, éditions Idem, Paris, 2024

Anthologies of poetry Nuovi poeti romeni, Marco Cugno and Marin Mincu editors, Florence: Vallecchi Editore, 1986 Incertitudes. Antologie de la poésie roumaine, Dan Deșliu editor, Quebec: Humanitas Nouvelle Qptique, 1992 Streiflicht: Eine Auswahl zeitgenossischer Rumänisher Lyrik, Christian W. Schenk editor, Kastellaun: Dionysos Verlag, 1994 Antologia di poesia mediteranea, Marco Cugno editor, Milano: Marzorati, Emanuele Bettini editore, 1996 Gefährliche Serpentinem. Rumänischer Lyric der Gegenwart, Dieter Schlesak editor, Berlin: Edition Druckhaus, 1998 Romania and Western Civilisation, Kurt W. Treptow editor, Iassi: The Center for Romanian Studies, 1998 Day after Night. Twenty Romanian poets for the Twentieth First Century, Gabriel Stănescu and Adam J. Sorkin editors, Norcross: Criterion Publishers, 1999 STRONG. 28 de poete din România: 28 poetek rumunskich, Denisa Comănescu editor, Bucharest: Universal Dalsi, 1998 Poètes roumains contemporains, Irina Petraș editor, Montréal/Bucharest: Les Ecrits des forges/Editura didactică și pedagogică, 2000 Speaking in Silence. Prose Poets of Contemporary Romania, Adam J.Sorkin and Bogdan Stefanescu editors, Bucharest: Paralela 45, 2001 Poetry is a Woman (11 Woman Poets from Romania), translation into Greek by Sandra Michalaki and Anna Sotrini, Athens: Alpha publishing house, 2006 Born in Utopia/ Născut în Utopia. An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry, edited by Carmen Firan and Paul Doru Mugur with Edward Foster, New Jersey: Talisman House Publishers, 2006 Poésies de langue française. 144 poètes d’aujourd’hui autour du monde. Anthologie établie par Stephane Bataillon, Bruno Doucey et Sylvestre Clancier, Paris: Seghers, 2008 Anthologie poétique. 109 poètes femmes contemporaines, sélection d’Angèle Paoli, Terre des femmes, 2010, 2014, p.74. http://terresdefemmes.blogs.com/anthologie_potique/anthologie-po%C3%A9tique-terres-de-femmesprintemps-des-po%C3%A8tes-2010-couleur-femme-.html Romanian Writers on Writing, Norman Manea editor, Trinity University Press, San Antonio, Texas, 2011 Testament - 400 Years of Romanian Poetry - 400 de ani de poezie românească - bilingual edition - Daniel Ioniță (editor and principal translator) with Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul & Eva Foster - Editura Minerva, 2019 - Romanian Poetry from its Origins to the Present - bilingual edition English/Romanian - Daniel Ioniță (editor and principal translator) with Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul and Eva Foster - Australian-Romanian Academy Publishing - 2020 - ;

Art critiques

Essays Art of the 1980s. Texts on Postmodernism, Bucharest: Litera, 1996 (in Romanian) Art of the 1980s in Eastern Europe. Texts on Postmodernism, Pitesti: Paralela 45, 1999 (in English) Visual Arts in Romania 1945-1989, Bucharest: Meridiane, București, 2000 (in Romanian) Art et pouvoir en Roumanie 1945-1989, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007 (in French) Visual Arts in Romania 1945-1989. With an Addendum 1990-2010, Bucharest: Polirom, 2013 (in Romanian) Visual Ars in Romania 1945-1989. With an Addendum 1990-2020, Bucharest: ICR Publishing House, 2022 (in English)

Monographs Ion Ţuculescu, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1984 (in Romanian) Lucian Grigorescu, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1989 (in Romanian)

Texts in collective volumes Von der Bürokratie zur Telekratie, Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1990 (in German) A Latvany és Gondolat, Bucharest: Editura Kriterion, 1991 (in Hungarian) Bucharest in the 1920s-1940s: between Avant-Garde and Modernism, Bucharest: Simetria, 1994 (in Romanian and English) The Competition goes on. The 80s Generation in Theoretical Texts. An Anthology by Gh. Crăciun, Pitesti: Ed. Vlasie, 1994; second edition, Paralela 45, 1999 (in Romanian) The Moment of Truth. An Anthology by Iordan Chimet, Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 1996 (in Romanian) Experiment in Romanian Arts after 1960, Bucharest: CSAC, 1997 (in Romanian and English) Culture of the Time of Transformation, Poznan: WIS Publishers, 1998 (in English and Polish) Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe. From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism, edited by Richard Frucht, Northwest Missouri State University, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London, 2000 European Contemporary Art. The Art of the Balkan Countries, Thessalonica, State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002 Perspectives roumaines. Du post-communisme à l’intégration européenne, Catherine Durandin and Magda Carneci editors, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2004 European art criticism, Stuttgart, Badischer Kunstverein / AVAN network/ Culture 2000, 2005 Ligeia, Paris, 2005, no. 57-58-59-60, janvier-juin (in French) Influences françaises dans l’architecture et l’art de la Roumanie des XIXe et XXe siècles, Bucharest : Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2006 (in French) D’une édification l’autre. Socialisme et nation dans l’espace (post-) communiste, Marlène Laruelle and Catherine Servant editors, Paris : PETRA Editions, 2008 (in French) Ligeia, Paris, XXII°année, n° 93-94-95-96, juillet-décembre 2009 (in French) The She-writer’s Sofa, Mihaela Ursa editor, Cluj-Napoca: Limes, 2010 (in Romanian) Romanian Cultural Resolution, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2011 (in German and English) Intellectuels de l’Est exilés en France, Wojciech Falkowski and Antoine Marès editors, Paris : Institut d’études slaves, 2011 Zidaru. Das Work von Marian & Victoria Ziadaru, Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2011 SAPTE. Metadecorativul/SIEBEN. Das Metadekorativismus, vol III, Bochum: Klartext, 2012 (in German, Romanian, and English)

Translations into Romanian Christopher Merrill, Only Nails Remain. Scenes from the Balkan Wars 1992-1997, together with Radu Sava, Pitesti: Paralela 45, 2002 Catherine Durandin, Bucharest. Remembrances and Walks, together with Horia Mihail Vasilescu, Pitesti: Paralela 45, 2004 Nicole Brossard, Installations. Paralela 45/ Montreal: Les Ecrits des Forges, 2005 Pierre Oster, Alchemy of Slowliness/ Alchimie de la lenteur, Paralela 45/Gallimard, 2007 Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa, Bucharest, Tracus Arte, 2021 Laurine Rousselet, Instantanee/Instantanés, poems, Bistrita, Charmides, 2021 Jean-Pierre Siméon, Stabat Mater Furiosa, Bistrita, Charmides, 2023