LANGSA will host a reading and talk by Carmen-Francesca Banciu on creative writing between languages entitled "Language Play: Transformation through Writing and Creativity"on Thursday, September 22 at 2 pm in Gentry 119E.
Carmen-Francesca Banciu was born in Lipova, Romania and studied Byzantine art and foreign trade in Bucharest. As a result of being awarded the International Short Story Award of the City of Arnsberg for the story "Das strahlende Ghetto" (“The Radiant Ghetto,” 1985), she was banned from publishing her work in Romania. In 1991 she accepted an invitation extended by the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence program, which eventually led to her immigration to Germany. Writer-in-Residence at Rutgers University from 2004-2005 and University of Bath in 2009, Banciu currently lives in Berlin and works as a freelance author and co-editor/deputy director of the transnational, interdisciplinary and multilingual e-magazine Levure Littéraire. Since moving to Berlin, Banciu has written almost exclusively in the German language, and her work has been translated into numerous languages. Her book-length works deal with the geographic, psychic, and linguistic migrations of the woman author in Europe under and following the fall of Communism. She is the author of Berlin is my Paris: Stories from the Capital (2016), Mother’s Day: Song of a Sad Mother (2015), Fenster in Flammen (2015), Ein Land voller Helden (2000), and Vaterflucht (1998), among others.
(With the support of the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at UConn)
For more information, contact: Abigail Fagan at abigail.2.fagan@uconn.edu