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OZB People: 10 Questions for Arabella McIntyre-Brown, author

1. Please tell us about who you are and what you do. I was born and bred in an English hamlet called River, in what is now the South Downs National Park. When I was 19 I went to London and spent the n...

Hera the She-Wolf of Transylvania

Friend of OZB Damian Galvin presents this local work of fiction. You can read more from Damian at https://blog.whitemountain.ro/ Reina was a shy and mysterious young woman, who grew up in Transylvania, near...

Love Story

English translation of the “Love Story” short story by Romanian writer, Dan Plesa. The story is a part of the “Stories of love and helplessness” (Povesti de Dragoste si Neputinta) volume, published in 2019 by ...

The Eminent Eminescu and His Literary Little Women Contemporary

By David Shoup This past month marked the 170th birthday of acclaimed Romanian literary sensation Mihai Eminescu, in a grand remembrance attended by the minister of culture and newly re-elected president. A...

British Author Arabella McIntyre-Brown Found Her Home in Transylvania…and Wrote About it

By Dana Tudose Tianu Born in rural West Sussex, South-Eastern England, Arabella McIntyre-Brown is a British writer and editor who has been living in Magura, a small village in Transylvania, for the past 9 y...

ROMANIAN HISTORY AND HERITAGE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ADRIAN CIOROIANU

ADRIAN CIOROIANU is, since 2015, Romania’s Ambassador to UNESCO*, in Paris. His is one of Romania’s most esteemed historians, a writer and history professor at the University of Bucharest. He was recently in B...

OZB Poetry

MORNING LOVE POEM Dreamt last night I fed you, unknowingly, something you were allergic to. And you were gone, like that. You don’t have even a single allergy, b...

Carturesti opens MODUL, new bookstore concept

“The Paradise is a great library”, said once Jorge Luis Borges, quoted by the founders of Carturesti bookshops themselves. And probably it is, as we can see every time we walk in one of the Carturesti’s booksho...

Lunus Plinus and Andrei take kids on unforgettable adventures in new books by Andreea Micu

Kids’ author Andreea Micu launched on November 15 two books including new adventures of Lunus Plinus and Andrei. With the help of illustrator and designer Alina Maria Margulescu, the author takes children ag...

Tyranny

By Mike Ormsby The bell in the village church bongs to the faithful and here they come: pretty girls with posies, boisterous lads in straw hats, farmers and their wives. Three elderly women shuffle along, cl...