Lidia Vianu

Lidia Vianu, a poet, novelist, critic, and translator, is Professor of Modernist and Contemporary British Literature at the University of Bucharest, where she is also Director of the publishing house Contemporary Literature Press (http://mttlc.ro) and of the eZine Translation Café. She has been a Fulbright professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and SUNY Binghamton. Vianu has published over 20 books of literary criticism, including *The AfterMode* and *T.S. Eliot: An Author for All Seasons*. She has also published several English learning manuals, and has translated over 70 books into English and Romanian, including two translated with Adam J. Sorkin and published by Bloodaxe: Marin Sorescu’s *The Bridge* (2004), winner of the 2005 Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation, and Mircea Dinescu's *The Barbarians' Return* (2018). She has published both in Romania and abroad; see *Censorship in Romania* (Central European University Press, 1997).

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