George Badarau

Literary presentation 1. Name: Badarau George 2. Field of interest: literature 3. Data and the place of birth: 2nd August 1952, Piciorul Lupului village, Iasi county 4. Graduated schools: “Alecsandru Ioan Cuza” University, Philology Department (Literature, Language and Linguistics), Iasi, 1979 “M. Sadoveanu” High School, Iasi, 1971 Piciorul Lupului Secondary School. 1967 5. Main occupation: Romanian Teacher in different schools PhD in philology 6. Literary debut: “The Evening Star” magazine, Bucharest, 1974 “Clock’s insomnia” (lyrics), Eminescu Publishing House, Bucharest, 1982 Articles and literary creations published in: “Literary talks”, “The Chronicle”, “Literary Dacia”, “The time”, “Literary Bucovina”, “Athenaeum”, “Poesis”, “One”, “Aurora”, “The poetry”, “Branches”, “Romanian Life”, “The Evening Star”, “Horizon”, “Haiku”, “Antithesis”, “Hyperion”, “Equidistances”, “Military Observatory”, “Feed Back”, “Literary North”, “Literary Mirror”, “The paradox”, “Literary Baad”, “Porto Franco”. Literary prizes: “N. Labis ” Festival’s prize, Suceava (1976); Student’s Art Festival prize, Iasi, (1976); Novalis prize, Germany (2004), Haiku International Contest, 1st prize, Bucharest (2009). 7. Published books: “Clock’s insomnia”, lyrics, Eminescu Publishing House, Bucharest, 1982 “Bell’s lonliness”, lyrics, Junimea Publishing House, Iasi, 1987 “The fantastic in literature”, theory and literary critics, European Institute’s Publishing House, Iasi, 2003 “Symbolism”, theory and literary critics, European Institute’s Publishing House, Iasi, 2005 “Inter-war modernism”, theory and literary critics, European Institute’s Publishing House, Iasi, 2005 “Romanian avant-garde”, theory and literary critics, European Institute’s Publishing House, Iasi, 2006 “Vasile Voiculescu’s fiction”, theory and literary critics, Princeps Publishing House, Iasi, 2006 “Romanian neomodernism”, theory and literary critics, European Institute’s Publishing House, Iasi, 2007 “Romanian Surrealism in the European context”, theory and literary critics, Feed Back Publishing house, Iasi, 2008 “Poems”, 1, lyrics, Studis Publishing House, Iasi, 2008 “Literary movements”(team work), theory and literary critics, European Institute’s Publishing House, Iasi, 2009 Dictionary – “Canonical Romanian writers”, theory and literary critics, European Institute’s Publishing House, Iasi, 2009 Appearances in anthologies: Junimea and Bolta Rece, epigrams, Time Publishing House, Iasi, 2001 An anthology of today prose, Cronica Publishing House, Iasi, 2005 An anthology of today poetry, Cronica Publishing House, Iasi, 2005 A hundred masts, little haiku anthology of Romanian poets, Haiku Publishing House, Bucharest, 1997 Mihai Ursachi, in contemporaries’ memories, memoralistica, Princeps Publishing House, Iasi, 2006 Ioanid Romanescu, in contemporaries’ memories, Princeps Publishing House, Iasi, 2006 An anthology of today prose writers from Iasi, Cronica Publishing House, Iasi, 2008 An anthology of today poetry writers from Iasi, Cronica Publishing House, Iasi, 2008 An anthology of today Romanian poetry, Noul Orfeu Publishing House, 2008 366 lessons of haiku, an anthology commented by Florin Grigoriu, Sentimental Sunset Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009 A thousand cranes, an haiku anthology of Romanian and foreign writers, coordinator Eduard Tara, Pim Publishing House, Iasi, 2009 8. Critical references Laurentiu Ulici, George Badarau: “Clock’s insomnia” in Literary Romania, Bucharest, no. 124, 1982, p.11 Daniel Dumitriu, “Clock’s insomnia” by George Badarau in Literary talks, Iasi, no. 7, 1982, p14 Codrin Liviu Cutitaru, Selfportraits, in Cronica, Iasi, nr. 15, 1988, p.4 Marius Chelaru, The fantastic in literature, in Cronica, Iasi, no 4, 2004, p. 2 Amalia Voicu, George Badarau, Symbolism, in Literary Dacia, Iasi, no.3, 2005, p. 246. Eduard Tara, Symbolism, in Cronica, Iasi, no 10, 2005, p9 Constantin Secu, Symbolism, in Literary Dacia, Iasi, no.1, 2006, p 63 Emilian Marcu, Symbolism, in Literary Talks, Iasi, no. 2, 2006, p 147 Constantin Secu, Romanian avant-garde, in Literary Dacia, Iasi, no. 4, 2007, p. 64 Constantin Secu, Inter-war modernism, in Literary Dacia, Iasi, no. 65, 2006, p. 63 Emanuela Ilie, Vasile Voiculescu – two critical perspectives, in Literary Dacia, Iasi, no 76, 2008, p. 27 Constantin Secu. Vasile Voiculescu’s Prose, in Literary Dacia, Iasi. No 6, 2007, p 64 Constantin Secu, Romanian Postmodernism, in Literary Dacia, Iasi, no. 81, 2008, p. 61 Constantin Secu, Romanian Surrealism, in Literary Dacia, Iasi, no. 2, 2009, p 63. Liviu Apetroaie, Books on the table, in Literary Dacia, Iasi, no 3, 2009, p. 63 Constantin Secu, The fantastic in literature, in Literary Baad, Barlad, no. 4, 2009, p 35 Constantin Secu, Poetry, 1, in Literary Baad, Barlad, no 4, 2009, p. 35 9. Literary career: Copy editor at the Dialog students’ magazine (1976-1979); Editor at Impact magazine (1993); Secretary at Poetry magazine’s editorial office (2001-2002). 10. Other cultural-scientific activities: Author of the Nicolae Labis – Life and work edition, foreword, the selection of the texts, bibliography, critical references, Time Publishing House, Iasi, 2001 Scientific referent for the Romanian Language and literature textbook, 11th form, authors: Mariana Ranghilescu, Carmen – Irina Haila, Daniela Paduraru, Geanina Cotoi, European Institute’s Publishing House, Iasi, 2005 11. Member of the following professional associations: Romanian writers association, 1995 Science, Art and Literature Academy, Oradea Romanian Society of Haiku, Bucharest “Junimea 90” Cultural Society, Iasi Copyro member, Bucharest, Poetas del Mundo. 12. Address, email, telephones: George Badarau, B-dul Carol I, no 44, bl. B1, et. 1, ap. 6, Iasi, Cod 700462 Mobile telephone: 0728143033 E-mail: badarau.george921@gmail.com Webpage: http://georgebadarau.blogspot.com The new Romanian Literature George Badarau