Poetry night at Maison d'Europe et d'Orient (04 of November, 3 passage Hennel, 75012 Paris, metro Gare de Lyon) with Adi Cristi, Lucia Negoiţă, Liliana Ursu, Radu Vancu (Romania), Niall Yates (Belgium), Camille Aubaude, France -- readings and debate on the social and educational role of poetry and its place in European society. Please find below the release about the poetical evening on Monday published by the portal Courrier des Balkans: http://balkans.courriers.info/article23513.html Presentation of participants : Lucia Negoita published several poetry books. Her last book is Book with Poets, 2012, consisting of 21 interviews with major Romanian poets. She has made hundreds of documentaries, interviews, cultural shows for the radio. She was awarded the APTR Prize, in 1999, and was nominated in 2003 for documentaries dedicated to poets Nichita Stanescu and Gellu Naum. She also was awarded the Prize for Cultural Journalism, in 2002. Her poetry has been translated in foreign countries: Greece (V. Ivanovici), Slovakia, Syria. She participated at the International Festival of Poetry in Thessaloniki, 1996. Included in 5 Young Romanian Poets, an anthology signed by poetess and translatress Liliana Ursu. Recently, Lucia Negoita appears with a consistent set of poems, Echoes, in the anthology Of my Generation's Songs, in Canada, 2013, in Greek language, translated by Chris Ziatas. Liliana Ursu. An internationally acclaimed Romanian poet, Liliana Ursu was born in Sibiu, Romania. A graduate in English (MA) of the University of Bucharest, she was a lecturer in English at the University of Bucharest and then worked (1972--1981) with the Romanian Television as a script and producer of live programmes as well as documentaries. She was Fulbright lecturer at Penn State University twice (1992--1993, 1997--1998) as well as visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Louisville (spring, 2000). She has travelled widely, reading poetry and participating in various international festivals. Her literary work won her four Prizes for Poetry (1976, 1980, 1987, 2002) while in 1998 she got the Radio Award for Best Cultural Programme. In 2006 she was awarded The Writers' Association Prize for Poetry. In fall 2003, Ursu was Poet-in-Residence at the Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University. She is a full member of the Writers' Union of Romania. Radu Vancu (Sibiu, Romania, 1978) is a Romanian poet, essayist and translator. Starting with 2002, he has published six books of poems, for which he was awarded numerous prizes, both national and international, and two large essays on Mihai Eminescu and Mircea Ivănescu. He has also published a children novella. Together with Claudiu Komartin, he is the co-editor of the anthologies Best Romanian Poems of the Year (2010, 2011, and 2012). He has translated novels and poetry (two ample selections from Ezra Pound and John Berryman). He works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Letters and Arts at the „Lucian Blaga" University from Sibiu and as an editor of two cultural magazines, Poesis International and Transilvania. He is an organizer of the International Poetry Festival in Sibiu. Moderator: Robert Adam, Connexion Roumanie, Paris. Niall Yates. Nial Yates (born Paolo Dagonnier in 1990) grew up in Florence to Belgian parents. After some erratic years in his teens, he began to study foreign languages at the University of Liège (Ulg) in 2008. He cherishes mainly British and American 20th century writers. Yates is part of the creative cercle at the Ulg which started in 2012 a new literary magazine -- Chromatique, with Lucien Druart, Thibaut Creppe, Derassan, Julie Fraiture, Héloïse Husquinet. Chromatique received in March 2013 the Georges Lockem prize awarded by the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature to young poets under the age of 25. Camille Aubaude, France: Poétesse française la plus traduite dans le monde, docteur en lettres, personnalité de la ville d'Amboise où la Maison des Pages lui est consacrée, Camille Aubaude est régulièrement invitée à des festivals de poésie. Dans les années 2000, les Poèmes d'Amboise, reliés au récit poétique La Maison des Pages, ont rencontré une audience internationale. Son essai Lire les femmes de lettres (1993), joint à ses poèmes satiriques et ses études du mythe d'Isis, sont des références incontournables de la critique féministe. Son dernier livre, récit et poèmes, Voyage en Orient (2013), est déjà traduit en espagnol.

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