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"Most Beauteous Non-Prostitution Woman in Shortest Dress" [FuckyeahEurovision!]

After a minor hiatus, Janis Stirna is back with his on-going preview of the Eurovision. The semi-finals start next Tuesday (5/22), and he promised me he’d cover all the entries before the finals along with all his yes/no votes on who will make it to the finals. Hello my friends. If You are here today this is ...

New International Promotions

This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. In contrast to Russia, both the Korean government and the Romanian government have recently launched large projects to better promote their writers abroad. The Korea Literature Translation Institute (6.0 E 937) recently published some wonderful, quite elegant ...

Secret Weapon

Secret Weapon is the final collection from Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu (1911-1991). I can’t say that I knew all that much about Romania or Romanian poetry before picking up this book, likely because this is the first time Jebeleanu’s work has appeared in English despite his reputation as one of Romania’s best-known ...

World Literature Tour: Romania

The Guardian’s world literature tour visits