Literature

16 May 2024 - 18 May 2024

Ioana Pârvulescu's "Jonah and His Daughter" Launches at Barbican Library. An affectionate and vivid account of the reluctant, recalcitrant prophet Jonah.

Award-winning Romanian author Ioana Pârvulescu and former BBC World Service journalist George Stănică will discuss Jonah and His Daughter, the latest book by Ioana Pârvulescu to be translated into English by Alistair Ian Blyth forIstros Books, hot off the printing

12 Mar 2024 - 14 Mar 2024

VOICES OF FREEDOM: ROMANIA AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR

Romania’s 14th participation at the London Book Fair celebrates generations of astonishing writers, who offer strong, original voices and well-crafted language through their awarded books. 35 years since the Romanian Revolution, we celebrate freedom in all its creative

19 Jun 2023

Scriitorul Michael Solomon, despre călătoria sa pe urmele poetului Ovidiu, la ICR Londra

Scriitorul Michael Solomon va susține prelegerea „Călătoria lui Ovidiu, două mii de ani mai târziu“ la sediul Institutului Cultural Român de la Londra, marți, 20 iunie 2023, de la ora 19. 00. Discuția va avea loc pe marginea romanului său The Scapegoat. Ovid’s

13 Mar 2023

Prezentarea volumului „Gog and Magog. Letters from Exile“ și prelegere susținută de artista Mariana Gordan, la ICR Londra

Mariana Gordan, pictor, sculptor și scriitor stabilit în Marea Britane, va susține prelegerea „Gog și Magog – Nevoia de individ și de societate în arta contemporană”, marți, 14 martie 2023, ora 19:00, la sediul reprezentanței ICR Londra. Pe baza experienţelor

15 Mar 2022 - 15 Mar 2022

Literary debate on the commemoration of the Holocaust in Romania

Literary debate on the commemoration of the Holocaust in Romania15/03/2022 @ Online debate - website www. icr-london. co. uk and social media ICR London( FB and Youtube)The event marks the publication of the volume Seven love stories during the Holocaust, communism and today

1 Jun 2021 - 11 Jun 2021

Cărtărescu’s Nostalgia - The cult masterwork from Romania’s most celebrated writer

RCI London is celebrating the release of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Nostalgia,in the universally admired Penguin Modern Classics series, with a programme of events developed in partnership with the prestigious publishing house. Widely considered to be the pre-eminent literary

28 Feb 2021

Book Launch:'Secrets of Transylvania'

The gorgeous book-album Secrets of Transylvania by Diana Pop Comșa is a picturesque foray into the landscape, crafts and rural life of Transylvania, Romania. The preface is signed by Aura Woodward, former executive director of the Prince of Wales Foundation in Romania and

27 Jan 2021

Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: Book launch “With an Unopened Umbrella in the Pouring Rain” by Ludovic Bruckstein

Leading independent Istros Books will publish Ludovic Bruckstein’s second short stories collection, “With an Unopened Umbrella in the Pouring Rain”, translated into English by Alistair Ian Blythe. Surviving the Holocaust and escaping communist Romania, Ludovic Bruckstein

17 Oct 2020

ROMANIA ROCKS: Romanian-British Literature Festival

ROMANIA ROCKS* is a joyfully original festival of Romanian-British literary events, initiated by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and featuring the best and brightest “rock star authors” from both countries in conversation about the literature and ideas that

30 Sep 2020

Launch of The Romanian Riveter

The Romanian Cultural Institute will be hosting the launch of The Romanian Riveter, the first British literary magazine dedicated to Romanian literature, on Wednesday 30 September. The event will include presentations, readings and discussions around the featured authors,

1 Jul 2020

Mihail Sebastian's “The Star with no Name” published into English in the translation of Gabi Reigh

We are delighted to announce the publication into English of “The Star with no Name”, Mihail Sebastian's most popular play, first published and performed in 1944. Mihail Sebastian is best known to the British public as the author of the haunting interwar masterpiece

10 Oct 2019

Befitting of the Coming Winter Season: A Book to Warm the Heart ‘The Town with Acacia Trees’: Book Launch & Panel

The Romanian Cultural Institute proudly presents the next book in the series of Romanian essential literature translated into English: Mihail Sebastian’s “witty, lyrical coming-of-age novel” (Aurora Metro Books) ’The Town with Acacia Trees’. Written in 1931, the