Romania’s stand at the London Book Fair 2014

Newsroom 02/04/2014 | 16:43

Between April 8-10, Romania will have a stand at the London Book Fair 2014, using as motto for this event a verse of Romania’s greatest poet, Mihai Eminescu: “All is Old and New is All”. The Romanian participation at the London Book Fair also honors the legacy of voivode Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654-1714), cultural patron and great lover of books whose life, lost in the name of convictions, remains an inspiration 300 years on to all those who seek to master the science of bridging old and new, in life as well as in books.

ICR London states that the protagonists of the Romanian programme at the London Book Fair 2014 are literary critic and literary historian Nicolae Manolescu, the President of the Romanian Writers’ Union and Ambassador to UNESCO, novelist and cultural historian Ioana Pârvulescu, the recipient of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2013, translator Alistair Ian Blyth, the most prolific British translator from Romanian, novelist Varujan Vosganian, Vice President of the Romanian Writers’ Union, Mihai Mitrică, the Executive Director of the Romanian Federation of Publishers, crime story author and publisher Bogdan Hrib, Moldovan journalist and author Stela Brînzeanu, travel writers Nick Hunt and Peter Hurley, curator and cultural animator Adina Pașca and academic and translator Cristian Anton.