Mircea Opriță

Mircea Opriță (born October 25, 1943, Timișoara) is a Romanian writer, editor, essayist, critic, historian and translator of science fiction literature. Mircea Opriță is a prominent figure in the Romanian sci-fi literary environment, at the peak of a six-decade career.

Biography Between 1961 and 1966, he attended the Faculty of Philology at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj. and a member of the Writers' Union Council and Steering Committee (2000-2004).

Debut He made his debut with the poem Cântec pentru rachetă, in the Cluj newspaper Făclia (1960).

He debuted in science fiction in 1964 in the magazine Viața studențească with the story Un cântec din Aldebaran,

His first volume of science fiction stories, Întîlnire cu meduza, was published in 1966.

Mircea Opriță is the author of the anthology Cea mai bună dintre lumi (1979) and he collaborated with writer Herbert W. Franke on the German-language anthology SF aus Rumänien.

Works

Întîlnire cu meduza, Tineretului Publishing House, 1966, science-fiction stories Argonautica, science-fiction parody novel, Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest, 1970 (second edition, revised and enlarged, with a foreword by the author, Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1980) Planeta părăsită, theater play, series for puppets, County Committee for Culture and Art, Puppet Theater Cluj, 1971 Viața într-o floare, theater for youth, County Center for guidance of popular creation and mass artistic movement, Cluj, 1972 Jocul cu vipere, verses, Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1972 Nopțile memoriei, short stories, Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest, 1973 Adevărul despre himere, short stories, Cartea Românească Publishing House, Bucharest, 1976 Păsărea de lut, novel, Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1976 Figurine de ceară, short stories, with a foreword by Ion Hobana, Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1978 Semnul licornului, short stories, Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest, 1980 Cina cea mai lungă, novel, Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1983 HG Wells: Utopia modernă, critical essay, Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest, 1983 Judecătorii, a story in the anthology Return to the Blue Planet, 1989 Anticipația românească. Un capitol de istorie literară, Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1994 (2nd ed. revised and enlarged, Viitorul Românesc Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003)

Translator translated novels by HG Wells and stories by HP Lovecraft into Romanian

Literary awards and distinctions

The Writers' Union Award, Nopțile memoriei, 1973 (awarded 1974); The Cluj Writers' Association Awards for the works: H. G. Wells: Utopia modernă, 1983 (awarded in 1984), Anticipația românească, 1994 (awarded in 1985), Discursul utopic, 2000 (awarded in 2001); The Ion Agârbiceanu Award, for the novel Călătorie în Capricia, 2011 (awarded in 2012)