User:Ioncretu

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Biography Born near Târgovişte, he studied French at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, graduating in 1965. Subsequently, he taught high school French in Arad, after which he moved to Bucharest where he taught high school French at the Liceul 41 (Jilava, Bucharest). In 1973, he was accepted to a Ph.D. program at the University of Georgia (USA) in the Department of Romance Languages, where he was a TA for three years (1973-1976) and also taught courses in French and intensive Romanian. After a brief summer vacation home, the Romanian authorities stopped him from returning to the US to finish his doctoral degree. In 1978 he tried to immigrate to the US, but he was not allowed to. Until 1989 he held all sorts of odd jobs, including work as an unskilled worker and factory clerk. For many years being unemployed, due to his political situation, Ion Creţu managed to survive by giving private lessons in French and English. In 1987, following a brief hunger strike in favor of human rights, he was held for questioning, along with his wife, at the infamous Rahova Penitenciary. After 1989, he found work in such occupations as journalist, copy writer, PR, editor and started publishing criticism in several literary magazines. In 2002, he received the Laurenţiu Ulici Prize for his book Viciu nepedepsit. In 1996, he spent three months as a Writer in Residence at the Mary Anderson Cultural Center, USA (Ohio). In 2006, Ion Creţu retired as an editor from the Romanian Cultural Institute Bucharest and devoted his full time to writing.

Works Printed volumes •	Viciu nepedepsit, Editura Echim, 2002 (book reviews); •	Ioan Es. Pop, Rugăciunea de antracit/The Anthracite Prayer, Dacia, 2002 (translation into English along with K. Shaver and Nat Smith); •	Ioan Es. Pop, Lumile livide/The Livid Worlds, Editura ICR, 2004 (translation into English along with K. Shaver and Nat Smith); •	Dark, Editura Muzeului Literaturii Române, 2007 (translation into English along with Patricia Davis and Virgil Stanciu); •	Jonathan Frazen, Al 27lea oraş, Polirom, 2007 (translation from English); •	Fabrice Pataut, Biblioteca din Alexandria, Editura ICR, 2006 (translation from French); •	Felix de Azùa, Povestea unui idiot spusă de el însuşi, Polirom, 2006 (translation from Spanish); •	Călătorul (novel) Cartea Românească, 2006. •	Lecturi de serviciu (essays & book reviews), Editura Muzeului de Istoria Literaturii Romane, 2009. Awards •	Laurentiu Ulici Prize for Viciu nepedepsit (2002)