Augustin Cupşa
Augustin Cupşa (1980) studied at the University of Medicine and works as a psychiatrist in Bucharest. He is currently preparing his PhD thesis. He made his literary debut with a volume of poetry in 2005 with Constructed / reconstructed present. One year later he published a novel, The Perforators, which won several literary awards. Excerpts of this parabolic sarcastic odyssey in prose have been translated into French and appeared in literary e-magazines. His short script “The train for Bucharest leaves from the 3 rd platform” received a HBO Romania prize and “Oh, Johnny, oh” was nominated for best script at Anonimul International Film Festival. Since then he has worked as a scriptwriter in television projects. He received a European Alliance for Television and Culture bursary in 2006 and participated to “Les Jeux du Francophonie” in 2009, Beirut. In 2010, Cupşa was invited to Literaturwerkstatt, Berlin for a public reading among other writers in the Rumaniche Quasiliteratur programme. He is preparing a new book, a collection of his best short stories. Augustin Cupşa is a member of the literary group Les Suites du Phenix ( www.lessuitesduphenix.org).
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Word Express writer Ognjen Spahić from Montenegro will be visiting London for events with his UK publisher, Istros Books, from the 15th - 18th of May. See the Istros Books website for more details.
This year's Prague Book Fair - Svet Knihy - is focusing on literature the Black Sea region. Word Express writers Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria), Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia) and Pelin Özer (Turkey) will talk about their Balkan literary journey and read their work at the gala evening. Go to the Literature Across Frontiers website for more details.
Word Express interviews Georgian poet Zaza Koshkadze, and talks to Owen Martell and Milan Dobricic about translating and publishing Owen's novel into Serbian after meeting on the Word Express journey. All on the Travel Blog.