Mircea Cărtărescu

Romania's Minister of Culture Bogdan Gheorghiu is inviting Romanians to celebrate the Romanian Language Day by reading, reporting that this year the recommendation of the Permanent Representation of Romania to the EU for the Readers of Europe 2021 programme is "Orbitor" (Blinding) by Mircea Cartarescu.

ICR London will organize, starting with Tuesday, a series of events on the occasion of the launch, in English, of the volume "Nostalgia" by Mircea Cartarescu, translated by Julian Semilian and published by the prestigious Penguin Classics.

Thousands of titles, meetings with writers, historians, translators, literary critics and famous journalists, book launches and autograph sessions, debates and contests are the various events the publishing houses will be treating book lovers with at the Gaudeamus Radio Romania Book Fair opening on Wednesday at the Romexpo exhibition compound and running until Sunday.

Writer Mircea Cartarescu was awarded the "Thomas Mann" Prize for Literature on 2018, one of the most important German literary awards.

Mircea Cartarescu's "Poetry" tome, gathering the author's poetry works, will be launched at the Humanitas Bookshop near the Cismigiu Gardens on Tuesday.

Photo credit: (c) ANGELO BREZOIANU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

The 9th edition of the International Book Fair Bookfest 2014, hosted in the Romexpo exhibition complex of Bucharest between May 28 and June 1, proposes 300 events of 200 publishing houses, with more than 1,000,000 titles on display, Romanian Publishers Association President Grigore Arsene announced in a press conference on Tuesday, May 27.