Petre Stoica has been publishing in Romanian since 1957. The translations here in 2RV derive from The Master of the Hunt Visits (Vizita maestrului de vânatoare). Stoica has won numerous literary prizes including the Writers' Union Grand Prize and the National Mihai Eminescu Poetry Prize.
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Ioana Ieronim is the author of ten collections of poetry. The Triumph of the Water Witch (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), translated with Adam J. Sorkin, was shortlisted for Oxford University's Weidenfeld Prize. Other books include 41, Dragon Kites over the Mountains, and Escalator.
Adam J. Sorkin's recent translations include Magda Cârneci's Chaosmos, translated with Cârneci (White Pine Press), Mihai Ursachi's The March to the Stars (Vinea Press), and Mariana Marin's Paper Children (Ugly Duckling Presse). Sorkin has received funding and grants from the NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, and Witter Bynner Foundation