We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
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has published three collections of poetry, most recently Human Soil (2006). He has translated several contemporary American poets, and won a prize for his translation of Seamus Heaney. In 2001 his Circumference of Ash was selected a Best Poetry Book of the Year by the Ministry of Culture. The founder of the literary journal Aleph Review and of the publishing house Aleph Publishing, he currently heads the Culture and Art Department in Albania's Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. He participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
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