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Liviu Antonesei
Liviu Antonesei (b. April 25, 1953, Vladeni, Iasi, Romania) is a writer, researcher, publicist, democratic politician, currently retired from politics, university professor in Iasi.

Biography


He graduated from primary school, gymnasium and high school in Iasi. He opted for the

psychology-sociology department of the University of Iași, which he graduated in 1976.

During his studies, he discovered the student press, being the head of the sociology section of

Dialog magazine and deputy editor-in-chief of its sister “Opinia Studenteasca”.

He returned to the leadership of the latter in 1980, and in May 1983, he was released from office

following a first investigation by the Securitate, very determined to &amp;quot;make order&amp;quot; among young

writers from Iași. After the investigation, he was continuously followed by the Security:

interception of correspondence and telephone calls, warnings, etc. But the gestures of

disobedience intensified, culminating in the signing of the appeal initiated by Dan Petrescu

signed by Doina Cornea, Luca Pițu, Liviu Ioan Stoiciu, Alexandru Tacu, Mariana Marin and 15

other writers and workers from all over the country against the re-election of Ceaușescu to The

14th Congress of the PCR appeared at the beginning of October 1989 in the international press.

He does not consider himself a dissident, he was not even a party member, but a non-conformist

sometimes, sometimes “refuznik”.

Professional and academic career:

Between 1976-1978 he was a psychologist-therapist at the Interschool Speech Therapy Center in

Iași and a teacher of logic and psychology at the Pedagogical High School in the same city.

Between 1978-1989 he was a researcher in Educational Sciences at the Center for Socio-Human

Sciences of the University of Iași. Since 1990 he has been a lecturer at the Department of

Educational Sciences of the same university. Since 1996 he has been a PhD student in education

sciences with a thesis on “Pedagogy as a science of culture”. Since 1978, he was the author of

about one hundred scientific studies in the fields of sociology of education, intellectual history,

history and philosophy of culture, modern didactics, research methodology of education and

science He defended his doctorate in September 2001 and was promoted to associate professor in

January 2002. From October 2005 he became a professor at the same department.

Literary and journalistic career:

Between 1974 and 1976 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Opinia studențească. In

1980-1983 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the same magazine. Between 1990-1995 he became

deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Convorbiri literare, published by the Romanian Writers&amp;#39;

Union. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a member of the Writers&amp;#39; Union and its board of

directors; resigned from both in the fall of 1995. He has been a member of the Romanian PEN

Club since 1990 and of ASPRO since its establishment. He became literary-artistic director of

Timpul magazine in August 1993 and director since 1998; is the founding president of the

&amp;quot;Timpul&amp;quot; Cultural Foundation in 2000, the magazine&amp;#39;s publishing institution for about 20 years.

The rest of the team has been the author of about 10,000 articles, essays, chronicles in the

cultural and current press, blog articles since 1974. Since July 2020, he has been an editor at

Revista Regal Literar.

His work has been translated into poetry anthologies and magazines from Hungary, USA,

Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France, etc.

Published scientific volumes:

 * Paideia. The cultural foundations of education, Polirom Publishing House, 1996
 * Nautilus. Structures, moments and models in interwar culture, Cronica Publishing House, 1999
 * Criterion Publishing House, 2007
 * University Management, Polirom Publishing House, 2000 (in collaboration with three colleagues from the University of Assiut, Egypt)
 * An Introduction to Pedagogy. The axiological and transdisciplinary dimensions of education, Polirom Publishing House, 2002
 * Polis and Paideia. Seven studies on education, culture and educational policies, Polirom, 2005
 * Guide for education research, Liviu Antonesei (coordinator), Nicoleta Laura Popa, Adrian Labăr, Polirom, 2009
 * Paideia Revisited. Introduction to the sciences of education, University Publishing House „Al. I. Cuza”, 2015
 * Volumes of verse, prose, interviews, essays:
 * Debut in volume in 1988, with the essay book Signs of Time, Junimea Publishing House, republished by Princeps Edit Publishing House, 2006
 * Pharmakon, poems, Cartea Româneasca Publishing House, 1989
 * The search for the search, poems, Junimea Publishing House, 1990
 * Journal of the Plague Years, 1987-1989. Attempts at spontaneous sociology, journal, Polirom Publishing House, 1995
 * Changing weather, interviews, Moldova Publishing House, 1995
 * Platon nonsense. Intellectuals and politics, essay, Polirom Publishing House, 1997
 * The appearance of Aeon and the other love poems collected from the Gnosis Tree, poems, Axa Publishing House, 1999
 * About love. Anatomy of a feeling, essay, Ars Longa Publishing House, 2000
 * Check Point Charlie. 7 stories without counting the preface, stories, Editura T, 2003
 * Literature, what a story! A diptych and some links in the literature network, essays, Polirom Publishing House, 2004
 * The appearance, disappearance and eternity of the Aeon, poems, Editura Paralela 45, 2007
 * Hesperia. Seven talks about the European spirit and its pathologies, studies, Feed Back Publishing House, 2007
 * The Morrison Hotel. Stories to date, stories, EuroPress Group Publishing House, 2007
 * Cretan philosophical stories and other poems from the islands, poems, Herg Benet Publishing House, 2012
 * Innocent and collateral victims of a bloody war with Russia, stories, Polirom Publishing House, 2012
 * A bull in the stone window, poetry anthology, Adenium Publishing House, 2013
 * Poems from the dawn of dusk, new poems 2013-2016, Junimea Publishing House, Iași, 2016
 * Poetic Opera (1978-2016), Parallel Publishing House 45, Bucharest, 2017
 * And the darkness did not cover her ..., Junimea Publishing House, Iași, 2017
 * 5 rock ballads, Vinea Publishing House, Bucharest, 2018
 * The shadow of the sea is not the sea, Junimea Publishing House, Iași, 2018
 * Journal of the Plague Years, 1987-1989. Attempts at spontaneous sociology, re-edition, Cartea Românească Educațional Publishing House, Iași, 2019
 * Changing weather, interviews, re-editing, Cartea Românească Educațional Publishing House, Iași, 2020
 * Her greatness reaches the dead, poetry, Junimea Publishing House, Iași, 2020
 * Yellow signs on the black screen, poetry, Junimea Publishing House, Iași, 2021
 * Interviews with Liviu Antonesei:
 * Writers and politics 1990-2007. Dorin Popa in dialogue with Liviu Antonesei, Dorin Popa, European Institute Publishing House, 2007
 * A month in confessional. Conversations with Liviu Antonesei, Nicoleta Dabija, Eikon Publishing House, Cluj, 2014; 2nd edition, revised and added, Eikon, 2016
 * Writers and politics 1990-2007. Dorin Popa in dialogue with Liviu Antonesei, Dorin Popa, European Institute Publishing House, 2007
 * A month in confessional. Conversations with Liviu Antonesei, Nicoleta Dabija, Eikon Publishing House, Cluj, 2014; 2nd edition, revised and added, Eikon, 2016

Books in foreign languages:

Then and Now. Once and now, lyrical anthology by Liviu Antonesei, prologue, selection and translation: Mario Castro Navarrete, Adenium Publishing House, 2014

The Innocent and Collateral Victims of a Bloody War with Russia, short stories by Liviu Antonesei, translated by Mihai Rîșnoveanu, Mike Phillips and Ramona Mitrică, Profusion Gold,

London, 2014

Pieta - Eine Auswahl rumänischer Lyrik, Trad: Christian W. Schenk, Dionysos, Boppard, 2018, ISBN 9781977075666

5 rock ballads, translated from Romanian by Sorin Barbul, Vinea Editions, 2019

Die Suche der Suche, translated by Christian W. Schenk, Editura Dionysos, Boppard, 2020

E-books

2004 - Check Point Charlie Liternet Publishing

2004 - About love. Anatomy of a feeling Liternet Publishing House

2006 - Signs of the times (opinions, dialogues) Liternet Publishing House

2014 - The Innocent and Collateral Victims of a Bloody War with Russia - Profusion Gold,

London

Political involvement:

Liviu Antonesei was president of Iași County from July 1996 until December 1998, when he

resigned. He was elected by the Civic Alliance Party, which in 1996, at the local level, won the

Iași City Hall, the Iași Local Council, the Iași County Council and its presidency, plus 28 town

halls in the county. Then he was the president of the county organization PAC and the

coordinator of the electoral campaign.

Civic involvement:

Antonesei was noted for his vocal attitude against the Iași administration, following the decision

of Mayor Gheorghe Nichita to cut, in February 2013, the alignment of linden trees in the city

center and replace it with dwarf Japanese shrubs. The writer has published a number of virulent

editorials in this regard, while supporting civic protest initiatives by other intellectuals and

students.

Interviews:

Culture is preferable to politics, and love to culture; (I). Interview with Liviu Antonesei,

Svetlana Cârstean, Cultural Observatory - number 165-166, April 2003

https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/cultura-e-preferabila-politicii-iar-dragostea-culturii-i-

interviu-cu-liviu-antonesei/

Culture is preferable to politics, and love to culture; (II). Interview with Liviu Antonesei,

Svetlana Cârstean, Cultural Observatory - number 167, May 2003

https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/cultura-e-preferabila-politicii-iar-dragostea-culturii-ii-

interviu-cu-liviu-antonesei/

Whoever tries to deconstruct the myths wakes up with a shovel in his head; Interview with

Liviu ANTONESEI, Ovidiu Șimonca, Cultural Observatory - number 331, July 2006

https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/cine-incearca-sa-deconstruiasca-miturile-se-trezeste-

cu-o-lopata-in-cap-interviu-cu-liviu-antonesei-2/

The poem Scream. Parting from the world. A testament, In Liviu Antonesei, A bull in the

stone window, (printed edition), ed. Adenium, 2013

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The Art of Sounds, interview with Liviu Antonesei, by Radu Lupașcu

http://www.artasunetelor.ro/Interviu_cu_Liviu_Antonesei.html

External links section
The writer destiny and choice

Author & #39;s blog: https://antoneseiliviu.wordpress.com

Streiflicht - Eine Auswahl zeitgenössischer rumänischer Lyrik (81 rumänische Autoren), -

Lumina piezișă;, bilingual anthology comprising 81 Romanian authors translated by Christian

W. Schenk, Dionysos Verlag 1994, ISBN 3980387119

El muro del silencio. Zidul tăcerii;, Anthology of contemporary Romanian poetry, Edition,

selection and translation by Angelica Lambru, Huerga Fierro Editores, 2007

Category:Romanian Writers