Novelist Filip Florian was proposed by the Foundation for Poetry 'Mircea Dinescu' to be the this year's Romanian beneficiary of a Halma grant. Filip Florian stayed at the Thomas Mann Culture Center in Nida, Lithuania in June, and he will stay and work at the Slovene's Writers Association's Apartment in Ljublijana, in September.
In addition, two public readings with the Romanian author were planned, at two international literature festivals in September:
Thursday, 2 September, Filip Florian will read at the Vilenica International Literary Festival in Slovenia from his novel “Little Fingers”, at 7 p.m. at the St. Daniel Church in Hruševje.
Sunday, 19 September at 6 p.m. Filip Florian reads at the international literature festival berlin in the framework of this year’s focus on Eastern Europe. Moderator: Carmen Francesca Banciu, German Translation: Elias Arens. Venue: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Conference Room 1.
His novel „Zilele regelui” (The Days of The King), published in 2008, was declared book of the year by the „Colloques of the Contemporary Romanian Novel”. Filip Florian is considered a major talent of the Eastern European literature. He lives in Bucharest.
“These days, I swear I wouldn’t know what to say about myself. At forty, it has become clear to me that I’m never going to be a football player, I’m beginning to lose hope that I’ll ever have long hair, I wake up increasingly early in the morning, I eat unbelievably few cherries (which I once cherished), I smoke unbelievably many cigarettes (which I once despised), truth seems to me quite questionable and the weather forecasts leave me cold. Fortunately, though not as strongly as I used to, I still believe that one day I’m going to catch a twenty-kilo sheatfish.” (Filip Florian)
The HALMA grant for Filip Florian was made possible by the S. Fischer Foundation.
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