Penguin Random House UK to publish Romanian Mircea Cărtărescu's Nostalgia

Penguin Random House UK is set to release Mircea Cărtărescu's volume Nostalgia next year.

The book can be preordered on the publisher's website, where March 2021 is listed as the release date.

The book is translated by Julian Semilian.

In a publisher's presentation of the book, Nostalgia is described as "a cult masterwork from Romania's most celebrated writer," "blending reality and symbolism, time and myth."

Nostalgia was previously published in English in 2005 by New Directions Paperbook, in the translation of Julian Semilian and with a foreword by Andrei Codrescu. It was also translated into French, Spanish, and German, among others.

Novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist Mircea Cărtărescu is a professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest. He is one of the most widely translated contemporary Romanian authors and has received numerous literary awards, both local and international.

His work was awarded by the Romanian Academy, the Romanian Writers' Union, the Culture Ministry, or the Association of Romanian Publishers. Nostalgia received in 2005 the Giuseppe Acerbi literary prize in Italy. He also received the Vileniča International Prize for Literature in 2011; the Haus der Kulturen der Welt International Prize for Literature in 2012; the Spycher – Literaturpreis Leuk prize in Switzerland in 2013; the grand prize of the Novi Sad International Poetry Festival in 2013; the Tormenta en un vaso prize in 2014; the Euskadi de Plata award in San Sebastian, also in 2014; the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding in 2015; the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2015; the Spanish Leteo award in 2017; and the Formentor de las Letras award in 2018. Last year, his novel Solenoid received the Prix Millepages for foreign literature.

(Photo: Mircea Cărtărescu at Göteborg Book Fair 2019 by Arild Vågen/ Wikipedia)