Versions of Home: Reading with musical accompaniment

The Grazer Stadtschreiberin Andra Rotaru reads texts that deal with "home/s".
Reading in Romanian with English translation

Moderation: Oana Hergenröther
Musical accompaniment: Quasi Presto string quartet

Admission is free. No registration required.

Andra Rotaru, born 1980 in Bucharest, Romania, works at the interface between the arts and has participated in several collaborative projects in Romania and abroad. Invitations to give readings, panels and presentations have taken her to various places in Europe and North and South America. She has published the poetry collections Intr-un pat, sub cearşaful alb [In a bed, under the white sheet] (2005), Ținuturile sudului [The southern regions] (2010), Lemur (2012) and Tribar (2018). She was awarded the "Young Poet of the Year" prize for Lemur. The debut volume was translated into Spanish (En una cama bajo la sábana blanca, Bassarai, 2008), Lemur was published in 2018 in the American translation by Florin Bican at Action Books, Tribar was published in 2022 in the American translation by Anca Roncea at Saturnalia Books.

Contact: interarts(at)uni-graz.at

The event is organised by the "European literatures and their interrelationships" research cluster of the University of Graz's Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europe”.