Adio, adio, patria mea cu î din i, cu â din a by Radu Pavel Gheo

Radu is one of the richest Writer & listed on most popular Writer. As a translator from English, he has translated around twenty volumes, mostly fiction.

He has also been included in several literary anthologies from Romania and abroad, with short stories or essays. He has published several hundred essays and studies in some of the major cultural magazines from his country and in some cultural magazines from abroad: Timpul, Dilema (veche), 22, Orizont, Observator cultural, Lettre International, Amphion, Korunk, Wienzeile (Vienna, Austria), Dialogi (Maribor, Slovenia), Sarajevo Notebooks (Sarajevo, Bosnia), Libertatea (Vojvodina, Serbia) Au Sud de l’Est (Paris, France), Lampa (Warsaw, Poland), Herito (Kraków, Poland), Courrier Internationale (France), Cultures d’Europe Centrale (France) etc.

The play has been put on stage by the National Theatre “Mihai Eminescu” from Timișoara, starting July 2007. He is also the author of a play entitled Hold-УП Akbar sau Toti în America (Hold-УП Akbar or Everybody in America). Gheo has published so far several volumes of short stories, essays, and two novels. The novel was translated in Italian (La Zisa, Palermo, 2016) and Spanish (Tres Hermanas, Madrid, 2020). The literary critic Daniel Cristea-Enache defined Noapte bună, copii! as “the novel of a generation”, the generation of the so-called “decreţei”. As the obsession grows, the main characters risk their lives in an illegal border crossing. The novel deals with the childhood spent in the Romanian Communist regime, where the children’s imagination is suffused with the obsession of an idealized Western world. The topic of immigration is also approached in Gheo’s 2010 novel Noapte bună, copii! (Good Night, Children!). Gheo is a member of PEN Club from Romania (since 2005) and of the Romanian Writers’ Union (since 2003). Radu Pavel Gheo (Romanian pronunciation: born Pavel Gheorghiță Radu on October 3, 1969) is a Romanian fiction writer and essayist.

Adio, adio, patria mea cu î din i, cu â din a by Radu Pavel Gheo