{"id":9617,"date":"2024-06-13T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/life-en\/?post_type=events&#038;p=9617"},"modified":"2024-07-09T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T06:10:22","slug":"discussion-with-poet-ana-blandiana","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/life-en\/events\/discussion-with-poet-ana-blandiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion with poet Ana Blandiana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"poet-essayist-short-story-writer-novelist-ana-blandiana-is-one-of-the-great-figures-of-romanian-literature-and-a-symbol-of-resistance-for-an-angry-youth\"\n    >\n<strong>Poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, Ana Blandiana is one of the great figures of Romanian literature and a symbol of resistance for an angry youth.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>She is the author of more than thirty works translated into 26 languages and has been awarded numerous prestigious literary prizes both in Romania and in Europe, including the Herder Prize (Vienna), the Golden Crown of Struga, the Griffin Award for Excellence in Poetry (Toronto), and was named European Poet of Freedom in 2016 in Gdansk, Poland. On 23 May, she was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banned from publication three times during the communist regime, Ana Blandiana is the honorary president of the Romanian PEN Club. She created and led the Civic Alliance and presides over the Civic Academy Foundation, founded with the writer Romulus Rusan, and is the initiator of the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance &#8211; recognized by the Council of Europe as a place of memory for the continent &#8211; in Sighet, in northern Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Franck Colotte, teacher-researcher and literary critic, corresponding member of the National Academy of Metz, will lead the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free entrance. 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