Jazz and improvised music pianist, he has already launched four albums and performs in several music bands. In 2014 his poetry collection Pandémonium – Pandaemonium (Bibliocratie, Paris) was published , and in 2017 his first novel, Onze ans – Eleven Years was published by Christophe Lucquin, Paris, a novel chosen in 2018 as winner of the 31 st edition of the Festival du premier roman in Chambéry (France). Jean-Baptiste Aubert is a professor of French Language and Literature, author and musician. In 2018, she published Povestea Otiliei Cazimir at Literary Museums of Iaşi Press.
Recently, Simona Antonescu has began publishing at Nemi Press – books for children the series Istoria povestită copiilor. This novel was also published in a new edition in the Top 10+ collection of Polirom and was shortlisted for the National Prose Award of ”Ziarul de Iaşi” in 2018.
The following year, Simona Antonescu’s Darul lui Serafim was published by Cartea Românească, and in 2017 Hanul lui Manuc was published by Polirom. She made her debut in 2015 with the novel Fotograful Curţii Regale, which won the Debut Contest of Cartea Românească and the Prize for the Debut Book of the Writers’ Union of Romania shortlisted at the Festival du Premier Roman de Chambéry it became a bestseller, published in a new edition in 2016, in the Top 10+ collection of Polirom. After graduating from “Constantin Dobrogeanu Gherea” Highschool (now, “Nichita Stănescu” National College) from Ploiești, she attended the courses of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute. Simona Antonescu was born in Galaţi in 1969 and spent her childhood in Ţintea, Prahova. Her prose books have been translated into 15 languages. Her novel Dimineaţă pierdută was turned into a play and staged by Cătălina Buzoianu at Bulandra Theatre, with an exceptional cast (December 1986 – February 1990), in a show that has become a classic.She has written four novels ( Drumul egal al fiecărei zile, 1975 Dimineaţă pierdută 1984 Întâlnirea, 2003 Provizorat, 2010), two short prose volumes ( Dăruieşte-ţi o zi de vacanţă, 1979 Vară-primăvară ,1989), two volumes of journalism ( Obsesia politicii, 1995 Cele două Românii, 2000), a volume of memoirs ( Anii romantici, 2014) and two novels translated from the French (one in collaboration). Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2014). Honorary president of the first edition of the Romanian Goncourt Award (2013). Member of the Latin Union Jury (2007-2009). Vicepresident (2000-2004) and then president of the Romanian PEN Centre (2004-2006). Awarded the ”Hellman-Hammett” prize for journalism granted by Human Rights Watch (2002). She was in charge of the 22 magazine (for 13 years) and its supplement Bucureştiul cultural – (for 7 years). Until 1990, dictionary editor (for 19 years) and Romanian l.iterature editor (for 5 years). Gabriela Adameşteanu was born in 1942 in Târgu Ocna.
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