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Monday, April 15, 2024

             News from the workshop Since Stela's journey into the world, Cristofovici has completed a new novel and is currently working on a creative nonfiction book. Two sections of this collage of journeys into language, imagination and space have appeared in the on-line journals La Piccioletta Barca (UK) and alligatorzine (Belgium):

• "Mount Sainte-Victoire (or Cézanne Revisited)" - by Anca Cristofovici https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/mount-sainte-victoire-or-cezanne-revisited 

 • "From Paris to Duino", alligatorzine241 | Anca Cristofovici | A Peculiar Atlas https://www.alligatorzine.be/pages/201/zine241.html  

An excerpt from the new novel has been shortlisted for the La Piccioletta Barca Prize 2024:

• La Piccioletta Barca | SHORTLIST: "Crystals Out of Chaos" by Anca Cristofovici

https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/amorphous-competition-shortlist-crystals-out-of-chaos-by-anca-cristofovici 

Monday, February 26, 2024

    Conversation with Anca Cristofovici, a film by Antonio D'Alfonso (2022)
    In 2020, just before the lockdawn, Antonio D'Alfonso asked me to contribute to his Conversation with Writers Series. A poet, filmmaker and publisher, Antonio is a Canadian trilingual writer and someone who combines writing with visual work, so his questions revolved around such topics as:  how I feel about writing in more than one language; how language identifies me; the writing process and my visual work; my relationship with the past;  my new novel The Golden Eyelash and MittelEuropa writers; living in different countries & cultures.   The film — poorly shot on my Ipad and with an accent exacerbated by the stress of having to hold the device at an appropriate distance or move around while I was speaking — explores these questions in the city of Nice, where I lived during the pandemic, a place where cultures and languages intertwine and layers of the past pop up at every turn.
     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLEoc3kJ16M

     Recorded readings from Stela:
    Berry College, Georgia, Department of English,Rhetoric & Writing Series,October 29,2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVoJXRSSp-I 
    •Everygreen State College Productions,Art Lectures Series:Michael Mejia&Anca Cristofovici,May16,2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlqXszLaGKM          

    Wednesday, March 31, 2021

    THE ANCA CRISTOFOVICI INTERVIEW. QUARTERLY CONVERSATION

    Interview by Ellen Hinsey — Published on September 12, 2016 Published in Issue 45  

    photo by Sophie Kandaouroff, Rowohlt Foundation

    Monday, June 11, 2018



    STELA in the Pacific North West, May 2018

    While a visiting scholar at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington in Seattle, Cristofovici read from her novel for the Art Lecture Series at Evergreen College in Olympia and at the Hugo House in Seattle.
    http://blogs.evergreen.edu/artistlectureseries/
    https://hugohouse.org/event/innovations-contemporary-novel/
    https://simpsoncenter.org/news/2018/05/welcome-visiting-scholar-anca-cristofovici

    European School of Political and Social Sciences, Lille Europe, March 16, 2018

    Cristofovici's novel, Stela, was featured in the European literature course of ESPOL for 1st and 3rd year students. The students presented Cristofovici's work and discussed aspects of the novel. They exchanged with the author about European history and literature, about where we are in terms of Eastern and Western Europe today, and about the relationship between "the political" and "the poetic".

    In her lecture, "Le mur invisible: l'écrivain europééen après 1989,"  (The Invisible Wall: Where European Writers Stand After 1989) Cristofovici discussed the situation of international (or supra-national) writers over the past thirty years. The work of writers who are independent of national identifications and languages still remains little known, if not totally ignored, in spite of globalization being the issue of the day. Considering a wide range of writers who have written in more than one language and lived in more than one country, would — Cristofovici argues — contribute to a more complete picture of European literature and of world literature, for that matter.

    Tuesday, May 2, 2017

    New York, April 2017
    Fashion Institute of Technology, English and Communication Program
    "Traveling Through Language" : about languages and other transformations: poetry into fiction, fiction into art projects.

    Friday, February 3, 2017

    AWP Washington D.C. 2017
    A signing session for Stela is scheduled on Thursday February 9th, 1:30-2:30 pm. at the Bookfair: Ninebark press, 750 T.

    Tuesday, November 15, 2016

    Reviews
    "The strength of Stela is in its multivalence. [...] Each moment of the novel is like a splintered dream of lives interrupted, rendered in electric prose. [...]"
    October 2015 
    "Readers are allowed to enter the work, and work themselves at interpretation through feeling and thought to a level that you won't find available in your typical pot-boiler."

    Friday, May 27, 2016

    READING-France
    Anca Cristofovici will read from her novel, Stela, on
    Thursday, June 16th, 7:30 p.m.at BERKELEY BOOKS of Paris
    She will be introduced by author Anne Marsella http://annemarsella.com

    Friday, January 29, 2016

    Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference - Los Angeles
    I will be happy to meet with readers and friends at the Ninebark Press book table. A signing session will also be scheduled at the Cuneiform Press book table for a volume I have co-edited: The Art of Collaboration: Artists, Poets, Books, published in August 2015.

    Monday, November 16, 2015


    READINGS United States
    Cristofovici's reading tour in the US includes:
            • Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 pm., Utah Book Festival, The King's English Bookstore, Salt Lake City, Utah
    http://www.utahhumanities.org/index.php/component/com_bookfestival  /Itemid,288/id,266/view,event/
            • Thursday, October 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m., Berry College, McAllister Auditorium, Mount Berry, Georgia
     READING TOUR IMPRESSIONS, October 2015 PRESS

    Wednesday, September 23, 2015

    ART EVENTS
    Fragments of Stela in association to artwork by Marsha McDonald and Daniel Cristofovici, as well as the book trailer have been included in the 3rd edition of The Venice Vending Machine, an installation featuring international artists, curated by Marina Moreno, Serra dei Giardini, Venezia, September 22-October 4, 2015.
    Exibition Catalogue
     http://www.venicevendingmachine3.com/

    Friday, March 20, 2015


    Book trailer
    With original film beads by Marsha McDonald. Produced by Tyler Marino.
    Cover art
    : Marsha McDonald, "Lampmoons", photographic collage, 2013. 

    Friday, February 27, 2015

    About the author
    Anca Cristofovici is a trilingual European writer, born in Romania and currently living in France, where she is a professor of American literature and art. She has also studied and taught in the United States.
     
    Representative of her multicultural experience, her publication background includes essays, translations, fiction, and poetry, published in English, French, and Romanian, in Europe and the United States. She is the author of John Hawkes. L'enfant & le cannibale (Paris: Belin, 1997), a book of essays on photography, Touching Surfaces (N.Y./Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2009), and co-editor of The Art of Collaboration. Artists, Poets, Books (Victoria, TX: Cuneiform, 2015). Her poetry translations include Ana Blandiana, The Hour of Sand (London: Anvil, 1989;1990, currently with Carcanet.)
    Cristofovici's fiction in English has appeared in American literary journals and online internatinal artists' platforms, and she has been invited to read at venues in the Unites States and Europe, including Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee; the English Cambridge Seminar and Poetry International at Royal Festival Hall, London; and WICE, Paris.

    Among her honors are grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, Université Paris-Sorbonne, and The British Academy, and writers' residencies at Villa Mont Noir, France and at The Rowohlt Foundation, Château de Lavigny, Switzerland.