NICULINA OPREA

A poet who was born in Melinesti, a county Romania. She is licensed in Law and she is member of the Romanian Writers Union, the Bucharest Writers Association and PEN Club Romania. Niculina Oprea lives in Bucharest and Timișoara. She made her debut in 1974 with poetry in the supplement of the daily newspaper “Înainte” from Craiova and then in the “Ramuri” the magazine under the name of Ianina Prelcu. She published numerous books of poetry and essays in Romanian and other languages, and her poems have been translated into many languages.

Membership:

– Member of the Romanian Writers Union and the Bucharest Writers Association.

    – Member of  International Pen Club / Romania Center .

Literary works:

Poetry:  In The Akheron’s Waters (1994); The Passag (1996); Under The Tiranny of the Silence ( 2000); Litanies At The Edge of the Memory (2002); …Next Summer You Will Be The Same (2004); Almost Black (2004, 2017); Les Guérisons imaginaires (2007, Launched in Paris); Our Lives and The Lives of Others (2008, 2017); Roots over Thresholds (2016); Ceremonial Armor (2018); Dante is nowhere to be found (2021).

Poems of Niculina Oprea in translation:

Neredeyese Siyah (Ayten Mutlu translator,) Turkey, 2011; Bizim Yaşamlarımız ve Başkalarının Yaşamları (Mesut Șenol translator), Turkey, 2013 ; Med-Cezir Arasinda (Erkut Tokman translator), Turkey 2016, Dünya Sızıntıları (Volkan Hacıoğlu translator),  2022, Turkey;   Tanz Des Regens (Christian W. Schenk translator) 2021, Germany; Solo io e l’ombra, (Claudia Piccinno translator),  Italy, 2024;  À l’approche definitive (Nicole Pottier, translator), 2026, France.

Literary studies:

Facets of Romanian Poetry – I (2015); Facets of Romanian Poetry – II (2020).

Translations into Romanian:

Sherko Bekas, Euphrates, the mystery of my destiny (2011); Ayten Mutlu, The Eyes of Istanbul (2012); Ayten Mutlu, The Secret Absence (2020); Mustafa Balel, The Initiator (2014);  Hilal Karahan, The Street Searching for the Sea  (2014); Evening on the Bosphorus, Collection on contemporary Turkish poetry (2015); Enver Ercan, Twin time  ( 2016); Mustafa Koz, Waiting for the wind (2017); Metin Cengiz, Prelude for a Night in Kars  (2017); Halil Ibrahim Özcan, The Broken Dice (2020); Volkan Hacıoğlu ve Muammer Hacıoğlu The Train to Kars (2021), Claudia Piccinno, Lecce and other poems (2024), Volkan Hacıoğlu,  Eminescu – The Poetical Fragments

from the History of a Betrayal, (2026),

Interview:

Celebratio  (2011), Interactions (2024).

Awards:

“AD-VISUMˮ (Baia Mare, 2005);“Naji Naaman” (Lebanon, 2011);“Dionysos Solomos”  (Larissa – Greece , 2011); The Medal for Excellency in Poetry and  the Diploma  offered during  the  22^nd  Poets Congress. (Greece 2011); “Ӧzkan Mert” (Turkey, 2018); “Lyre of Orpheus” (Bulgaria, 2018).