Carmen Firan


Carmen Firan is a poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, and playwright, resident in New York City.
She has published twenty books of poetry, novels, essays and short stories. Her writings appear in translation in many literary magazines and in various anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, U K, and the U.S. Her recent books and publications in the United States include: Interviews and Encounters. Carmen Firan in dialogue and poetry with Nina Cassian, Inferno, Rock and Dew, Words and Flesh, The Second Life, The Farce, In The Most Beautiful Life, and The First Moment After Death.
She is a member of PEN American Center and the Poetry Society of America and serves on the editorial board of the international magazineInterpoezia. She is the co-editor of Naming the Nameless , Stranger at Home, Poetry with an Accent, and Born in Utopia .

Works

Short stories and novels

Umbra pierduta Judecata. Adrian Sangeorzan vs Carmen Firan cu un verdict de Andrei Codrescu Timp in doi Interviews and Encounters, Carmen Firan and Nina Cassian, Dreptul la fericire,, in RomanianDialogul Vantului cu Marea, Nina Cassian in conversatie cu Carmen Firan, Unde incepe cerul, in Romanian
  • "Inferno", in English
  • "Detectorul de emotii", in Romanian
  • Miracole mici si mijlocii, in Romanian
  • Words and Flesh, in English
  • Puterea cuvintelor, in Romanian
  • The Second Life: Collection of Novellas and Short-Stories, previous stories translated into English: Somewhere in the East, Light in the Attic, The Second Life, Three for Inferno, The Boiler Man, Post-Meridian, Parking, Concession, and The Russian Fur Hat
  • Caloriferistul si Nevasta Hermeneutului
  • Farsa, translated into English as The Farce
  • Tot Mai Aproape , in Romanian

Poetry

Sertarul cu albine , in Romanian
  • Rock and Dew in English
  • Cuvinte Locuite , in Romanian
  • Cuceriri Disperate , bilingual, Romanian with English translation
  • Voci pe Muchie de Cutit , bilingual, Romanian with English translation
  • Afternoon With an Angel, in English
  • The First Moment After Death, in English
  • Accomplished Error, in English
  • Punished Candors,
  • Places for Living Lonely,
  • Pure Black,
  • Staircase under the Sea,
  • Tamer of Stolen Lives,
  • Paradise for Monday,
  • ''Illusions on My Own,''

Plays

Cum sa te desparti intr-o zi perfecta
  • Lumina din Pod
  • Vis in Acvariu
  • Vinatoare Imaginara
  • ''Polen pe Insula''

Presences in anthologies

Born in Utopia . - editors Carmen Firan and Paul Doru Mugur, with Edward Foster - Talisman House Publishers, 2006Testament - Anthology of Romanian Verse - American Edition - monolingual English edition - Daniel Ioniță, with Eva Foster, Daniel Reynaud and Rochelle Bews - Australian-Romanian Academy Publishing - 2017 -