Ionuţ Caragea

Ionuţ Caragea

Ionuţ Caragea in 2013
Born (1975-04-12) April 12, 1975
Constanţa, Romania
Pen name Snowdon King
Occupation poetry, science fiction, quotes, essays
Language romanian, french
Nationality romanian, canadian
Period 2003 – present
Literary movement Avant-gardism, transmodernism, neomodernism, paradoxism, 2000 poetic generation
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Website
http://ionutcaragea.ro

Ionuţ Caragea (born April 12, 1975, Constanţa, România) is a Romanian writer living in Oradea, România. Romanian literary critics see him as one of the leaders of the 2000 poetic generation and one of the most atypical writers of today’s Romania.

Biography

Caragea was born on April 12, 1975, in Constanţa. He is a poet, prose writer, literary critic, editor, aphorism-writer, and cultural promoter. He is a member of the Romanian Writers’ Union, the Dobrogea branch , a co-founder and vice-chairman of the Romanian Writers’ Association of Québec, an honorary member of the Writers’ Society of Neamţ County, an honorary member of the Maison Naaman pour Culture Foundation of Lebanon, a member of Elis – the worldwide remarkable Romanians’ Network, an honorary member of the International Association of Paradoxism, a member of the Diversité Artistique Cultural Organization of Montréal , a member of the Poetas del Mundo Cultural Organization of Chile etc. As a result of his friendship and name relation with Prince Eugen Enea Caraghiaur, in 2008 he was raised to the noble rank of Baron of the Cuman House of Panciu . He started his literary career in 2006, with a collection of poems – Delirium Tremens (STEF Publishing House, Iaşi). His poems, aphorisms, short stories, and critical essays have appeared in various magazines, newspapers, and anthologies in Romania and diaspora. He is one of the twenty authors who were published in Antologia aforismului românesc contemporan/An Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Aphorisms (Genesi Publishing House, Turin, 2013) . Following the 2012 Naji Naaman International Contest, he was awarded the Creativity Prize for aphorisms from his collection Dicţionarul suferinţei/A Dictionary of Suffering (Fides Publishing House, Iaşi, 2008), translated into French by Professor Constantin Frosin, PhD . He is included in Cartea înţelepciunii universale. Maxime şi cugetări din literatura universală/A Book of World Wisdom. Maxims and Thoughts from World Literature (eLiteratura Publishing House, Bucharest, 2014).[1] He is also included in Alertă de grad zero în proza scurtă românească actuală/Red Alert in Today’s Romanian Short Story Writing (Herg Benet Publishing House, 2012) . He has won several poetry and short story contests. Some of his work has been translated into five languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic. He was nicknamed “The poet who was born on Google” after the title of his book M-am născut pe Google/I Was Born on Google (STEF Publishing House, Iaşi, 2007) . In 2012, the English version of his science fiction novel Uezen was published by Wildside Press (US) .

In 2003-2011 he lived in Montréal, Canada, where he received the Canadian citizenship (2008). He worked as a sports instructor and professional sportsman, continuing his rugby career which he started in Romania. He is the son of a former star of Romanian rugby, Florin Caragea, who played for Farul Constanţa . Ionuţ Caragea played for Parc Olympique and won the Québec province championship three times .

He started writing poetry in his teens but it was in Canada that he discovered his true calling . His first poems were published on April 6, 2006, in “Observatorul,” a literary magazine from Toronto, where he was welcomed by the poet George Filip . Then he was promoted by the editor Dumitru Scorţanu, who published his first three books at STEF Publishing House, Iaşi. On July 16, 2008, he founded, together with the poet Adrian Erbiceanu, The Romanian Writers’ Association of Québec and the ASLRQ Publishing House. As an editor and founder of ASLRQ, in 2009 he compiled, together with Adrian Erbiceanu and Dumitru Scorţanu, the first anthology of Romanian writers from Québec, an very important work for the diaspora. He committed himself to promoting Romanian culture in North America, being webmaster, webdesigner, and literary promoter for the site of the Romanian Writers’ Association of Québec (www.aslrq.ro), and founder of the Prietenii Poeziei/Poetry’s Friends Literary Society. In February 2012 he returned to Romania and settled in Oradea. In 2014 the eLiteratura Publishing House published his latest collections of poems that were welcomed by the poet Ana Blandiana with a text on the back cover of his Cer fără scări/Stepless Sky.[2] In 2015 he coordinated the 2015 ASLRQ anthology.[3] He has published more than thirty books (poems, aphorisms, science fiction, critical essays, thoughts on spirituality, memoirs, and anthologies). Romanian literary critics see him as one of the leaders of the 2000 poetic generation[4] [5] and one of the most atypical writers of today’s Romania.[6][7][8] The critic Maria-Ana Tupan believes that the poet Ionuţ Caragea sometimes reminds one of Marin Sorescu, a great Romanian writer.[9]

Works

Poetry

Science fiction

Quotes

Essays

Spirituality

Literary Prizes

Appreciations

Bibliography

External links

Source of translation

This article contains a translation of Ionuț Caragea from ro.Wikipedia.

References

  1. ↑ Nicolae Mareș, Maxime şi cugetări din literatura universală/A Book of World Wisdom. Maxims and Thoughts from World Literature, review in Boema nr. 76, june 2015, pag. 27
  2. ↑ Ana Blandiana about Ionuț Caragea, Scrieliber.ro
  3. ↑ Ionuț Caragea, ASLRQ Anthology, Ziua din Constanța, 27 may 2015
  4. ↑ Daniel Corbu, FeedBack, march-april 2013, pag. 173, ISSN 1584-9295 (Ionuţ Caragea, "unul dintre liderii generaţiei poetice doimiste"/ Ionuţ Caragea, one of the leaders of the 2000 poetic generation)
  5. ↑ Ionel Bota, Mișcarea literară nr. 1, 2015, pag. 113-114 "poezia generaţiei care şi-l revendică între liderii ei şi pe Ionuţ Caragea"/ Ionuţ Caragea, one of the leaders of the 2000 poetic generation
  6. ↑ Ștefan Borbély, Convorbiri literare, 11 dec. 2014: "unul dintre cei mai atipici literaţi de care dispune în prezent România"/ Ionuţ Caragea, one of the most atypical writers of today’s Romania
  7. ↑ Cezarina Adamescu, Luceafărul de seară, 21 feb. 2010: "Ionuţ Caragea şi-a modelat o voce singulară, un timbru original, un stil aparte, inimitabil."/ a unique voice, an original stamp, inimitable style
  8. ↑ Angela Furtună, Oglinda literară. nr. 99, march 2010, pag. 5469: "stilul original artistic"/ original artistic style
  9. ↑ Maria-Ana Tupan, Contemporanul nr. 7, 2014 (last paragraph): "poetul ne amintește adesea de Marin Sorescu"/ Ionuţ Caragea sometimes reminds one of Marin Sorescu…
  10. ↑ [httphttp://romconsf.ro/romcon-2016-bucuresti/comunicat-de-presa/ - ''Romania over 100 years , Bucharest, Science Fiction]
  11. ↑ 2nd prize - Helion, Timişoara, Comic Science Fiction
  12. ↑ Nomination - U.S.R., Dobrogea, Science Fiction
  13. ↑ Creativity prize - Naji Naaman, Beyrouth, Lebanon, quotes
  14. ↑ Nomination - U.S.R., Iaşi, poetry
  15. ↑ mention - Helion, Timişoara, Science Fiction
  16. ↑ mention - Dor de dor, poetry
  17. ↑ 2nd prize - Helion, Timişoara, Science Fiction
  18. ↑ 1st prize –Visul, prose
  19. ↑ 1st prize – Visul, poetry
  20. ↑ 3rd prize - Helion, Science Fiction
  21. ↑ >Alexandru Cistelecan, „Avant la lettre”, "Divanul lui Caragea", Familia, nr. 11-12, 2015
  22. ↑ Maria-Ana Tupan , „Cer fără scări”, Contemporanul
  23. ↑ Maria-Ana Tupan, Contemporanul, nr. 3, 2015, „(Con)texte”
  24. ↑ Theodor Codreanu, Feed Back, nr. 1-2, 2015
  25. ↑ Marius Chelaru, Convorbiri literare, 2008, „Peregrinus”
  26. ↑ Marius Chelaru, Convorbiri literare, 2013, „Peregrinus”
  27. ↑ Ștefan Borbély, Convorbiri literare, 2014, „Literatura Azi”
  28. ↑ Adrian Dinu Rachieru, Convorbiri literare, march 2015
  29. ↑ Ionel Bota, Luceafărul de seară, oct. 2014
  30. ↑ Ionel Bota, Mișcarea literară, nr.1, 2015, pag. 113/114
  31. ↑ Mircea Opriță, Helion, may-june 2014
  32. ↑ Daniel Corbu, FeedBack, nr. 3-4, 2013, pag. 173, ISSN 1584-9295
  33. ↑ Cezarina Adamescu, Luceafărul de seară, 21 feb 2010
  34. ↑ Agero, Stuttgart, 23 april 2010
  35. ↑ Observatorul, Toronto, 20 dec 2009
  36. ↑ Angela Furtună, Observatorul, Toronto, 8 may 2011
  37. ↑ Remus Valeriu Giorgioni , Actualitatea literară, nr. 42, 2014, pag. 15, „Lăsați cărțile să vină la mine”
  38. ↑ Petre Rău, Dunărea de Jos din Galați, nov. 2012, nr. 129, pag. 38
  39. ↑ Valeriu Cuşner, Albina Românească, mai 2009, pag. 5
  40. ↑ Ştefan Dumitrescu, Luceafărul de seară, 26 dece 2014
  41. ↑ http://81.196.152.46:8080/opac/bibliographic_view/56443
  42. ↑ http://www.elefant.ro/carti/cultura-generala/cartea-intelepciunii-universale-maxime-si-cugetari-din-literatura-universala-225259.html
  43. ↑ Adevărul, 20 nov. 2015
  44. ↑ Adevărul, 27 sept. 2014
  45. ↑ Adevărul, 17 may 2009
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