Răzvan Ţupa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Răzvan Ţupa (born 1975) is a Romanian poet. His first book Fetis won the 2002 Mihai Eminescu First Book in Poetry National Award.[1]

Ţupa was born in Brăila and raised in Bucharest. He is a graduate of International Academy for Study of Religions and Culture History in Bucharest. Tupa was included in No Longer Poetry: New Romanian Poetry an anthology edited in English by Heaventree Press, United Kingdom.[2]

He was considered among the poets of the so called The "2000" Generation in Romania. .[3]

His second book of poetry included a CD with audio versions of his poetry. In 2005 and 2006 he recorded video poetry.[4]

He is the founding editor of the poetry magazine Versus/Versum and he is currently an editor of Cuvântul.

His poems have appeared in the literary journals România Literară, Litere and others. He lives in Bucharest.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Fetiş (Fetish) (2001)
  • Fetiş - O carte românească a plăcerii (Fetish - a Romanian Book of Pleasure) (2003)
  • Corpuri Româneşti (Romanian bodies) (2005)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Presentation of the poet at Writers.net
  2. ^ The presentation of the British anthology by David Morley
  3. ^ An essay on Romanian new poetry published on Tupa's blog in English
  4. ^ Video poems by Tupa on Youtube
Languages