Domnica Radulescu

Domnica Radulescu Portrait

Domnica Radulescu (born June 1961) is a Romanian-born American writer of novels,^[1] plays and books of literary criticism. She is the author of three novels: Train to Trieste (Knopf, 2008), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld, 2010) ^[2] and Country of Red Azaleas (Twelve, Hachette Group, 2016). She has also authored numerous books and edited collections on theater, east European literature, exile literature, representations of women and humor.

Two of her plays, The Town with Very Nice People (2013) and Exile Is My Home (2014) were finalists for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award,^[3] Exile Is My Home was presented as a staged reading at TheaterLab off Broadway ^[4] and was staged as a full production at the Theater for the New City in April 2016. She is a Fulbright scholar and the founding director of the National Symposium of Theater in Academe.

She has been reviewed by multiple publications for her books.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Works

Fiction

• Country of Red Azaleas, ISBN 978-1455590421 a novel. New York: Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Group, April 2016.

• Black Sea Twilight, ISBN 978-0552774758 a novel, London, UK, Toronto, Canada: Doubleday Publishing, April 2010 & August 2011.

• Train to Trieste ISBN 978-0307388360, a novel. New York: Knopf, 2008 and 2009; London, UK: Transworld 2008 and 2009, and twelve international editions: Editions Belfond in France, Hoffmann und Campe in Germany, Frassinelli in Italy, Zamora Publishing in Israel, Editorial Elephas in Mexico among them. Train to Trieste received rave reviews in the United States and abroad.

Literary Criticism

• Theater of War and Exile. Twelve Playwrights, Directors and Performers from Eastern Europe and Israel. McFarland Publishing, 2015.

• Women’s Comedic Art as Social Revolution. Five Performers and the Lessons of Their Subversive Humor. McFarland Publishing, 2011.

• “Gypsies in European Literature and Culture,’ co-ed. with Valentina Glajar, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, 2008 (refereed).

• The Theater of Teaching and the Lessons of Theater, co-ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, co-ed., 2005

• Vampirettes, Wretches, and Amazons. Western Representations of East European Women, co-ed. With Valentina Glajar. New York: Columbia University Press, East European Monograph Series, 2004.

• Realms of Exile. Nomadism, Diasporas and Eastern European Voices, editor Lanham, MD:Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2002.

• Sisters of Medea. The Tragic Heroine across Cultures. University Press of the South, 2002.

• André Malraux: The "Farfelu" as Expression of the Feminine and the Erotic. New York, Paris: Peter Lang Publishing, 1994.

Awards

• Honorable Mention – the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award – for the original play Exile Is My Home. An Immigrant Fairytale, June 2014

• Second Prize—the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award - for the original play The Town with Very Nice People. A Strident Operetta, June 2013 (chosen out of 114 play submissions)

• Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2011

• Library of Virginia Best Fiction Award for Train to Trieste, 2009

• Fulbright Lecturing-Research Fellowship to Romania, Theater Department, Babes-Bolyai University, fall 2007

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