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Andreea Iulia Scridon interviewed Monica Cure, winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize, for The London Magazine on translation, writing, and culture.
Pulitzer prize wining novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen came to Bucharest for an event put on by his Romanian publisher, Editura ART. Monica Cure was in conversation with him along with Iulian Bocai, Victor Cobuz, Mihaela Dedeoglu, and Razvan Cosmin Tupa.
Watch the recording (in English with Romanian translation)
The winner of the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize is Monica Cure for her translation of The Censor’s Notebook by Liliana Corobca!
In a series of talks organized by writer and Fulbright Fellow Allie Rigby, Monica Cure spoke about the role of questions in the healing power of writing.
Monica Cure gave a reading and talk at the University of Southern California (where she received her PhD) during a visit to Los Angeles to promote her translation of The Censor’s Notebook by Liliana Corobca.
At the invitation of the U.S Embassy in Bucharest, Monica Cure, along with writers and activists Brenda Flanagan and Nina Smart, participated in a week-long tour of U.S. Women Writers. They spoke at school and universities, with groups of Romanian women writers, as well as to the general public in Bucharest, Brasov, and Timisoara.
Read (in Romanian) about a collective dialogue with women writers
Read an interview given by Monica Cure to Taylor N. Schaefer in The Shore poetry magazine to accompany her poem in the issue 16 (winter 2022).
Monica Cure was selected as a participant in this year’s FILIT (International Festival of Literature and Translation in Iași) translator workshop alongside translators of Romanian literature from a total of 13 countries. Her project was a sample from a children’s book by surrealist poet Gellu Naum.
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The third collective dialogue in the series “Artists in Collective Dialogue: The Power of Thinking Together,” a collaboration between Monica Cure and the Goethe Institut Bucharest, took place on October 12th. Answering the question of “What is the responsibility of writers to their audience?” were Romanian writers Magda Carneci, Catalina Stanislav, and Radu Vancu. The audience was invited to contribute to the dialogue as a new collaborative element. Real-time question transcription was performed by Kyra Marken.
The second collective dialogue in the series “Artists in Collective Dialogue: The Power of Thinking Together” took place on May 10th at the Goethe Institut in Bucharest on the question “What kind of discrimination do women artists (still) face?” The dialogue included women artists of different generations from Romania, Germany, and Ukraine.
Kenyon College invited writers from the class of 2002 to share how their college experiences shaped their careers as writers, including David Bukszpan, Monica Cure, Jeremy Hawkins, Caitlin Horrocks, Jesse Donaldson (who unfortunately couldn’t make it), with English professor and Kenyon Writer-in-Residence P.F. Kluge.
Monica Cure is partnering with the Goethe Institut in Bucharest to create a series of three collective dialogues called “Artists in Collective Dialogue: The Power of Thinking Together.” The first will take place on February 28 at 6pm EET (GTM+2) on the question “What is censorship - really?” This in-person event will also be live streamed on the Goethe-Institut Bucuresti facebook page.
Collective dialogue, a methodology developed by Monica Cure, begins with a question and mobilizes participants to come to the deepest possible collective understanding of it and form their version of a working conclusion. In a unique format, figures from the world of art, culture, activism, and more, will spend an evening in dialogue at the Goethe Institut in Bucharest that will lead to insights for themselves as well as their audiences.
On January 13, 2022, Boston Review announced the winners of its annual poetry competition and Monica Cure was selected as a semi-finalist. The theme of the 2021 writing contests was “Repair.” Her entry will be published in a future issue of BR.
Monica Cure was an invited guest at the 9th edition of FILIT, the annual International Festival of Literature and Translation held in Iasi, Romania, one of the largest and most important festivals of its kind in Eastern European. She participated in the event’s evening of poetry readings, roundtables with literary translators, and talks with high school students both as poet and as translator, and had a conversation with Dana Badulescu about Badulescu’s new Romanian translation of Monica’s Cure book Picturing the Postcard.
At the festival, poet and cultural journalist Andrei Zbirnea interviewed her on translation and dialogue. She talks candidly about the realities of both. When it comes to publishing a translation, “three things are important: funding, having access to presses, and promotion.”
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Monica Cure was an invited poet at the 13th edition of annual International Festival of Poetry and Music in Bistrita.
ALECART, a high school student led organization and literary magazine, wrote up reviews of the events and poetry readings, including day three of the festival when Monica Cure read her poetry.
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On poetry, with Dana Badulescu for Fitralit
“Writing poetry is both terrifying and a relief…”
On Picturing the Postcard, with George Miller
“This week the Hedgehog and the Fox examine the humble postcard. In fact, when the postcard was new it was anything but humble, as Monica Cure, my guest on today’s programme, points out: it was radical.”
Monica Cure was an invited poet at the 2019 International poetry festival “Poets in Transylvania” held in Sibiu, Romania. It was the festival’s 8th edition.