Writer’s Profile: Anamaria Beligan
Anamaria Beligan
Fragments from a recently published article.
Anamaria Beligan is a contemporary Romanian-born novelist and short story writer currently living in Melbourne (Australia), considered by Adriana Babeti as “one of the most gifted story-tellers in Romanian literature.” Apart from writing both fiction and non-fiction in English and Romanian, she also writes, produces, and directs films.
Anamaria Beligan has published two novels and two collections of short stories. Her writings have also been published in both Australian and Romanian publications, as well as in online magazines. She writes in English, but she also assists Dana Lovinescu with the translation into Romanian of her own works.
Her novels include motherbena.com, published in Romania by Curtea Veche in 2005 and in Australia by Equator Publishers in 2006. Her debut novel is entitled Letters to Monalisa (Scrisori către Monalisa) and was published in 1999 by the Romanian publishing house Polirom, and featured on the national best seller list for several months.
Her latest collection of short stories bears the title Love is a Trabant (Dragostea este un trabant). It was published in 2003 by Curtea Veche and was listed for the 2003 Romanian Publishers’ Association Award (AER). Anamaria Beligan’s fist collection of short stories, A Few More Minutes with Monica Vitti (Încă un minut cu Monica Vitti) was published by Polirom in 1998 and by Equator Publishers in 2002. The collection was short listed for the 2003 Steele Rudd Best Short Story Collection Award.
Anamaria Beligan is currently working on her third novel, Windermere: Love at Second Sight. Her activity has been generously supported by The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Les Murray, Australia’s leading poet and one of the greatest contemporary poets writing in English, confessed that “Anamaria Beligan is a wonder, among Australian writers. Utterly distinctive, full of invention and flair and sheer difference.”
- Read the entire profile in “Studii de ştiinţă şi cultură” (An V, nr. 3 (18), septembrie 2009, pp. 56-62)
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