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. 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 in Paris, she was the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris. 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, BucharestMember of AICA InternationalMember of PEN International; president of PEN Club Romania, 2011 - 2019Member of European Cultural Parliament Member of HGCEA, USAMember of CIRET, ParisMember of Institut de Neuroconnectique, ParisMember of Union of Writers in Romania, Bucharest
  • ''Member of Union of Visual Artists in Romania, Bucharest''
WWW magdacarneci.ro

Works

Volumes of poetry in Romanian

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

Poetry books in foreign languages

Psaume, Marseille : Editions Autres Temps, 1997Poeme / Poems, Pitesti : Paralela 45 Le paradis poétique, Paris : Transignum, 2004 Chaosmos. Gedichten, Jan Willem Bos translator, Amsterdam: Go-Bos Press, 2004Chaosmos. Poems, Adam J.Sorkin translator, Boston: White Pine Press, 2006Trois saisons poétiques, Luxembourg : éditions PHI, 2008Chaosmos, translated by Linda Maria Baros, Paris : Editions de Corlevour, 2013Oh, meine Generation, Dionysos Boppard, Rheinland-Pfalz - 2020,, Trans: Christian W. Schenk GermanyTrans-Neuronal, editions Transignum, Paris, 2023Vida, 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, 2002Le sacré aujourd’hui, Paris: Editions du Rocher, 2003Transdisciplinarité - Un chemin vers la paix, Paris: Éditions FBV pour le CNRS, 2005La Mort aujourd’hui, Paris: Editions du Rocher, 2008Mon 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, 2023De 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, 1986Incertitudes. Antologie de la poésie roumaine, Dan Deșliu editor, Quebec: Humanitas Nouvelle Qptique, 1992Streiflicht: Eine Auswahl zeitgenossischer Rumänisher Lyrik, Christian W. Schenk editor, Kastellaun: Dionysos Verlag, 1994Antologia di poesia mediteranea, Marco Cugno editor, Milano: Marzorati, Emanuele Bettini editore, 1996Gefährliche Serpentinem. Rumänischer Lyric der Gegenwart, Dieter Schlesak editor, Berlin: Edition Druckhaus, 1998Romania and Western Civilisation, Kurt W. Treptow editor, Iassi: The Center for Romanian Studies, 1998Day after Night. Twenty Romanian poets for the Twentieth First Century, Gabriel Stănescu and Adam J. Sorkin editors, Norcross: Criterion Publishers, 1999STRONG. 28 de poete din România: 28 poetek rumunskich, Denisa Comănescu editor, Bucharest: Universal Dalsi, 1998Poètes roumains contemporains, Irina Petraș editor, Montréal/Bucharest: Les Ecrits des forges/Editura didactică și pedagogică, 2000Speaking in Silence. Prose Poets of Contemporary Romania, Adam J.Sorkin and Bogdan Stefanescu editors, Bucharest: Paralela 45, 2001Poetry is a Woman, translation into Greek by Sandra Michalaki and Anna Sotrini, Athens: Alpha publishing house, 2006Born 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, 2006Poésies de langue française. 144 poètes d’aujourd’hui autour du monde. Anthologie établie par Stephane Bataillon, Bruno Doucey et Sylvestre Clancier, Paris: Seghers, 2008Anthologie 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-.htmlRomanian Writers on Writing, Norman Manea editor, Trinity University Press, San Antonio, Texas, 2011Testament - 400 Years of Romanian Poetry - 400 de ani de poezie românească - bilingual edition - Daniel Ioniță with Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul & Eva Foster - Editura Minerva, 2019 - Romanian Poetry from its Origins to the Present - bilingual edition English/Romanian - Daniel Ioniță 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 Art of the 1980s in Eastern Europe. Texts on Postmodernism, Pitesti: Paralela 45, 1999 Visual Arts in Romania 1945-1989, Bucharest: Meridiane, București, 2000 Art et pouvoir en Roumanie 1945-1989, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007 Visual Arts in Romania 1945-1989. With an Addendum 1990-2010, Bucharest: Polirom, 2013
  • ''Visual Ars in Romania 1945-1989. With an Addendum 1990-2020, Bucharest: ICR Publishing House, 2022 ''

Monographs

Ion Ţuculescu, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1984

Texts in collective volumes

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

Translations into Romanian

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