Adela Greceanu

Adela Greceanu is the author of four full-length poetry collections. Her book Și cuvintele sînt o provincie [Words are also a province] won the 2014 Observator Cultural Poetry Prize, the top literary distinction in Romania, and the prestigious Cartier Press contemporary poetry series published a volume of her collected works in 2021. Greceanu has also published a novel and numerous short stories. Excerpts of her books have been translated into more than 10 languages and her novel is translated in Hungarian. She is an eminent cultural journalist through her work for Radio România Cultural and her own podcast.

  • Poems translated from Romanian by Monica Cure

    Adila watches as evening falls
  • Tartine. Quasi-unfamiliar. To handle a relationship

    In her teenage years,