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Mirela Roznoveanu (born 10 April 1947) [1] is a literary critic, writer, and journalist who has published novels, literary criticism, essays, and poetry. She was a noted dissident journalist during the turbulent period of communist Romania's late eighties. [2]
Roznoveanu was born in Tulcea. [1] She holds an MA in Romance Languages from the University of Bucharest (1970), a master's degree in Library and Information Sciences from the Pratt Institute (1996), and a Certificate in Internet Technologies from New York University (1997).
She was fired in 1974 from the literary and cultural magazine "Tomis" in Constanța where she had been a senior columnist. [1] because she refused to enroll in the Romanian Communist Academy Stefan Gheorghiu. In 1975 she moved to Bucharest. Between 1978 and 1989 she worked as a senior columnist for the cultural magazine "Magazin", published by the "România liberă" newspaper; in April 1989, during the process of the journalists from the "Bacanu Group", she had been investigated by the Securitate, moved and punished to work as a " health worker"; her books and writing were banned (5. Grupul "România liberă" bulverseaza Securitatea si Sectia de presa a CC al PCR). She had been part of the dissident group of journalists who took over the "România liberă" newspaper from the hands of the Communist government on 23 December 1989, making it the first independent and anti-communist newspaper in Romania. She became a senior columnist, member in the board of directors, and a founder member of the "R" Company SRL. http://blog.edituracartex.ro/?p=102 She had been also a founder member of Alianta Civica,the most important post-revolution pro-democracy group. [3]
In 1991, she moved to the United States, where she has continued her writing career. She was a librarian for the NYU School of Law (Associate Curator: [4] International and Foreign Law Librarian, 1996–2013). From 2005-2015 she was the Founder and the Editor of Globalex as Adjunct Associate Curator with the NYU Hauser Global Law School Program and the Honorary Editor (2015-). Globalex was awarded the American Society of International Law Jus Gentium Research Award on 13 May 2020.
In December 2000, Mirela Roznoveanu was honored by outgoing President of Romania Emil Constantinescu, for exceptional contributions from abroad in the service of Romanian culture and democracy. Mirela has been named an Officer of the National Order of Faithful Service. [5] [See also https://lege5.ro/Gratuit/gm4tanbzhe/drepturile-persoanelor-decorate-lege-29-2000?dp=gy3tanrvgmzta Art. 44. -Onoruri militare se dau, de asemenea, membrilor civili ai ordinelor naţionale, în conformitate cu asimilările cu gradele militare prevăzute la art. 43.- gradul de Ofiţer al ordinului este asimilat gradului de colonel] Her book The Civilization of the Novel: A History of Fiction Writing from Ramayana to Don Quixote received the 2008 Award of the Romanian Society of Comparative Literature and the 2008 Award of the Romanian Academy.http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-cultura-8130507-premiile-academiei-romane-anul-2008.htm Read more on her personal web page https://wp.nyu.edu/mroznoveanu/
Interview: Mirela Roznoveanu's Four Decades of Professional Writing: A Dialog with Vladimir Wertsman for Multicultural Review https://archive.today/20130416134745/http://vetiver.weblog.ro/2011/11/29/mirela-roznoveanu%E2%80%99s-four-decades-of-professional-writing-a-dialog-with-vladimir-wertsman-for-multicultural-review/%23axzz1fzZVzDe0
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP & ACTIVITIES:American Association of Law Libraries; American Society of International Law; Beta Phi Mu Honor Society – Chapter Theta; Member of the Romanian Writers Guild (1990–); Member of the Academy of American Poets. More bibliographical data see also https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirela_Roznoveanu: Marcel Cornis-Pope about The Civilization of the Novel; Civilizatia romanului comentata de Paul Cornea; Mihaela Ursa- Civilizatia romanului, Romanul – „a message in a bottle” Șerban Axinte—O istorie a romanului de la Ramayana la Don Quijote https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/o-istorie-a-romanului-de-la-ramayana-la-don-quijote-2/print/ ; Jean Parvulesco about Les temp de ceux qui sont elus - The Life Manager and Other Stories (Annie Gottlieb); Timpul celor alesi (Constantin Eretescu); Platonia (Andrei Codrescu, Dan Cristea); Platonia (C. Eretescu); Al. Piru despre Timpul celor alesi, 1988 ; Gabriela Negreanu despre Timpul celor alesi, 1988; Civilizatia romanului, Editura Cartex, 2008 Premiul Lucian Blaga ; Mircea Iorgulescu, România liberã, 18 iunie 1979 • Mircea Iorgulescu, România literarã, nr. 38/1981 • Liviu Petrescu, Tribuna, nr. 20/1983 • Gheorghe Grigurcu, Între critici, vol. II, 1983 • Mihai Ungheanu, Luceafãrul, nr. 22/1984 • Ioana Bot, Tribuna, nr.27/1988 • Dan Cristea, Lumea liberã româneascã, 5 iunie 1999 • Constantin Eretescu, rev. Origini (S.U.A.), octombrie 1999, Dan Stanca, Luceafãrul, 15 martie 2000 • Jean Parvulesco, Contrelitterature (Paris), septembrie 2000.