Laszlo Alexandru

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Laszlo Alexandru
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Laszlo Alexandru in 2018
Born (1966-05-04) 4 May 1966 (age 58)
Cluj
Occupationessayist, literary critic, literary historian, translator, journalist, professor
NationalityRomanian, Hungarian
Period1996–
Genre literature, language, history
Subject Dante, Medieval literature, Italian literature, Italian language, cultural history, historiography, Holocaust studies, translation studies, French literature

Laszlo Alexandru (born 4 May 1966, Cluj) is a Romanian essayist, literary critic, literary historian, translator and journalist. He is an Italian teacher. He is editor of E-Leonardo [1] cultural magazine and coordinator of the Italian collection at the "Ecou Transilvan" Publishing House. [2] He is known for his Dante interpretation contributions [3] in the university field in Romania [4] and in Europe, [5] in the Romanian culture [6] and in the Italian culture. [7] Also known in Israel for his cultural studies on the Holocaust. [8] Since 2014, he is a member of the Romanian Writers' Union. [9] His books have been published in Romania [10] and in the Republic of Moldova. [11] [12] He won the Romanian Writers' 2020 Special Award for Lectura lui Dante. Infernul; Purgatoriul; Paradisul. [13] Knight (Cavaliere) of the Order of the Star of Italy by decree of the President of the Republic, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Foreign Affairs. [14]

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Biography

Born in Cluj, Laszlo graduated from the Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), Cluj-Napoca, in 1989. He participated at the anti-communist rebellion from Cluj, in December 1989. He briefly described, in several published texts, the circumstances in which some revolutionaries from Cluj were shot [15]

Career

Since 1992, he is a teacher of Italian at George Barițiu National College in Cluj-Napoca. [16] Editorial debut in 1996 with the volume Între Icar și Anteu. Ph.D. in Letters with the thesis Criticul literar Nicolae Manolescu , UBB, 1999.

Works

Romanian literature

Italian language and literature

Translations

French-Romanian

Italian-Romanian

Romanian-Italian

  • Accademia Romena; Istituto di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte; Associazione per le Relazioni Culturali fra Italia e Romania, Omaggio a Dinu Adamesteanu, traduzione italiana: Grațiana Alicu, Laszlo Alexandru; traduzione francese: Tiberiu Toader, Cluj, Clusium, 1996, ISBN 9735550962;
  • Laszlo Alexandru, Per la selva oscura. Dante parlato, in collaborazione con Ovidiu Pecican, traduzione italiana di Laszlo Alexandru, illustrazioni di Alexandru Pecican, con la presentazione di Patrizio Trequattrini, București, Ed. Vinea, 2013, ISBN 9789736983597; seconda edizione, Cluj, Editura Ecou Transilvan, 2021, ISBN 9786067307436;
  • Gelu Hossu, Il Card. Iuliu Hossu. Spirito della Verità, traduzione italiana di Laszlo Alexandru, Cluj, Casa de Editură Viața Creștină, 2019, ISBN 9789736741623;
  • Mirela Duma, Haiku, traduzione italiana di Laszlo Alexandru, Aversa, Italia, Pasquale Gnasso Editore, 2020, ISBN 9788894962352.

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