Dora Pavel


Dora Pavel is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.

Biography

Born as Dora Voicu to Viorica Pop and Eugen Voicu, both teachers, Dora Pavel graduated from the Decebal College in Deva, and the Faculty of Letters of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj.
She graduated Decebal College in Deva, and the Faculty of Letters of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj. She became professor of Romanian language in Alba Iulia and Deva, then researcher at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary History in Cluj; since 1990, she has worked as editor at the local Radio Station of Cluj, where she specialises in topics of Romanian language and literature.
She made her poetry debut in the literary magazine Steaua, and her editorial debut in the collective volume Alpha '84 at Dacia Publishing House. She also publishes poetry and prose in such literary magazines as Tribuna, Steaua, Contrapunct, Apostrof, Contemporanul-Ideea Europeană, România literară, Viaţa românească, Poesis, Familia and Vatra.

Works

Poetry

Naraţiuni întâmplătoare, Cluj, Ed. Dacia, 1989.Poemul deshumat, Cluj, Ed. Dacia, 1994.Creier intermediar, Oradea, Ed. Cogito, 1997.Muncile lui Don Quijote, Piteşti, Ed. Paralela 45, 2000.

Short stories

Întoarce-te, Esthera, Cluj, Ed. "Biblioteca Apostrof", 1999.Animal în alertă, Cluj, Ed. Dacia XXI, 2010

Novels

Agata murind, Cluj, Ed. Dacia, 2003; 2nd ed., Iaşi, Ed. Polirom, 2004; .Captivul, Iaşi, Ed. Polirom, 2006; 2nd ed., Iaşi, Ed. Polirom, 2017.Pudră, Iaşi, Ed. Polirom, 2010.Do Not Cross, Iași, Ed. Polirom, 2013.
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  • .Bastian, Iași, Ed. Polirom, 2020.Crush, Iași, Ed. Polirom, 2022.Efectul Caligari, Iași, Ed. Polirom, 2025.

Interviews

Armele seducţiei, Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2007.Rege şi ocnaş, Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2008.
  • Gheorghe Grigurcu, O provocare adresată destinului. Convorbiri cu Dora Pavel, Satu Mare, Pleiade, 2009.

Anthologies

Young Poets of a New Romania, London & Boston, Forest Books, 1991.Transylvanian Voices. An Anthology of Contemporary Poets of Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi, The Center for Romanian Studies, 1997.Vid Tystnadens Bord, Stockholm, Symposion, 1998.Poètes roumains contemporains, Ottawa, Écrits des Forges, 2000.Il romanzo rumeno contemporaneo. Teorie e proposte di lettura, a cura di Nicoleta Nesu, edizione italiana di Angela Tarantino, premessa di Luisa Valmarin, Bagatto Libri, Roma, 2010.Fiction 16: Contemporary Romanian Prose, Iaşi, Ed. Polirom, 2010.

Editions

Biblia de la Blaj , Rome, 2000

Affiliations

Awards