Vasile GIRNET (born 1958, Leova) has been the director of Contrafort magazine, renowned as the strongest cultural periodical in Moldava, for the past 4 years. He has published one novel (The Witness, 1988) and two books of poetry (Sick Landscape, 1988 and Character in the Forgotten Garden, 1992), and his poetry can be found in various anthologies, including the French Une Antologie de la Poésie Moldave and L'Esprit des Péninsules, the German Neue Literatur, and the Italian Young Romanian Poetry. Mr. Girnet worked as an editor in the publishing house Hyperion from 1983-1990, and then as editor-in-chief of the same publisher from 1990-1994. He currently serves as Moldova's representative to the International PEN Organization. His participation in the IWP is supported by the United States Information Agency.

Countries
Moldova
Languages
Romanian
Session
1998