Adrian Sangeorzan
Adrian Sangeorzan (Bistrita, Romania, 1954) is a Romanian-born physician, poet, and fiction writer. He graduated from the Medical School at the University of Cluj, and worked as a doctor in communist Romania from 1978 until 1990, when he immigrated to the United States. He lives in New York and works as a specialist obstetrician and gynecologist at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. He is a contributor to “ Words Without Borders” and a monthly journalist in Romanian Literary Magazine "Scrisul Romanesc. He is founder of the New York-based medical practice Adrian Sangerozan OB-GYN. His poems have been translated into English, Chinese, French, German, Swedish, Arabic, and Spanish.
Life and career
Finalist in The National Prize for Fiction of Romania in 2005 for his best-selling memoir and fiction book “Between Two Worlds: Tales of a Women’s Doctor,” and recipient of The International Library of Poets Award in 2005.
He is a member of the International Literary Movement “Poetas del Mundo,” The International Library of Poets, PEN American Center, The Poetry Society of America, and The Literary Romanian Writers Guild.
Public interventions
Adrian Sangeorzan was invited to Festival International de Poesia de Granada (2018) and participated in the International Gothenburg Book Fair in 2014. As a guest poet, he was invited by Arizona State University (2008) to The Meacham Writers' Workshop to teach poetry.
He was a guest of the International Festival "Days and Nights of Literature," an event organized by the Romanian Writers' Union in 2007 and 2011.
Adrian Sangeorzan participated in Razvan Georgescu Florin Iepan’s documentary movie Children of the Decree (2004) based on oral testimonies and documents about the pro-natalist and abortion policy of the Romanian Communist Party during Ceausescu’s regime. The movie was produced in Germany as Das Experiment 770 - Gebären auf Behelf (2005).
Adrian Sangeorzan has given readings in the US and Romania: Cornelia Street Café, Arizona State University, Columbia University- International House, Romanian Cultural Institute New York, Hoboken Institute of Technology, United Nations New York, etc.
Literary work
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His volume of memoirs and fiction “Between Two Worlds: Tales of a Women's Doctor” (2005) was first published in Romania in three editions. He has published several collections of poems: The Anatomy of the Moon (2010), Tattoos on Marble (2006), Voices on a Razor's Edge (2003), and Over the Life Line (2002). He is also the author of the novels The Circus in Front of the House (2007) and Vitali (2008). His works are featured in several anthologies and literary magazines in the US and Romania. He is co-translator into Romanian of Naming the Nameless: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2006).
He has published poems and fiction in several literary magazines: Romania Literara, Interpoezia, Respiro, Scrisul Romanesc, Mozaicul, Hyperion, etc.
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