George Vulturescu (Romania)
GEORGE VULTURESCU was born on the 1st of March, 1951, at Tireac, a hamlet in Satu Mare county.
He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the „Babeş-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca. He worked for the culture authority in Satu Mare: the Bookshop Department, the „G. M. Zamfirescu” House of Culture of Satu Mare (as an instructor and then a manager). He was the director of the Department for Culture and National Heritage in Satu Mare county. He is a member of the Writers’ Union of Romania – the Cluj branch – and of the Romanian PEN-Club. He has received the Cultural Merit Order, cathegory A, in literature, having the rank of officer. He is a Doctor in Contemporary Literature (2010). He is currently retired.
He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary review „Poesis”, Satu Mare (since 1990 up to the present). The review was awarded several prizes (The Writers’ Union of Romania and the Romanian Association of the Literary Reviews and the Romanian Publishing Houses). He is the organizer of the International Poetry Festival „Cultural Days – The Poesis Frontier”, Satu Mare ( 32 editions).
Poetry: The Boundary Line Between the Words (1988); Poems from the Middle-Age of the Room (1991); The Town Beneath The Whitewash Of The Walls (1994); Treatise On the Blind Eye (1996); The Woman from the Middle-Age of the Room (1996); The Claw of the Letter (1998); The Agonizing Writing (1999); The North And Beyond The North (2001); The Nuptial Crags (2003); Treatise On the Blind Eye (2004); Monograms on the Stones of the North (2005); Other Poems from the North (2007); Blind, through the North – Anthology (2009); Gold and Ivy (2011); The North. A Gnosis of the Stone – Anthology (2011); The grotto and the Letters (2013), Black haze and calligraphy (2014), The book from Satu Mare (anthology) (2016), The seal of the North (2016), The maladies of the lamps (2019), Among the blind men chasers (2021), 101 poems (2021), Cesar Vallejo climbs Machu Picchu (2023), Nietzsche’s pine tree (2025).
Bilingual editions: Augenlieder, gedichte (translated by Christian W. Schenk and Simone Reicherts-Schenk, Germany, 1996); Traité sur l’Oeil Aveugle (translated by Sabrina Russo, Montreal, 2004); The North and beyond the North (translated by Olimpia Iacob, 2006); Do severa I dalse od severa (translated into Serbian by Adam Puslojič and Miljurko Vukadinovič, Belgrad, 2007); Versek (translated into Hungarian by Balázs Boróka, AB-art / Dellart, Limes 2010); Other poems from the North (translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Olimpia Iacob, Iaşi, 2011), Gold and Ivy (translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Olimpia Iacob), Eikon (2014); Ziemelu Aklais (translated into Latvian by Leons Briedis), Omnia Mea, Riga, Latvia, 2014; Les pierres du Nord (translated into French by Jean Poncet), Jacques Andre Editeur, Lyon, 2018; Blinde augen weinen nicht, (translated into German by Christian W. Schenk), Dionysos, Germany, 2020, The maladies of the lamps (translated by Olimpia Iacob and Jim Kacian), India, 2021.
