english versions of poetic
Arjun Bali (India)
Sampurna Chattarji (India)
Bill Herbert (Scotland)
Meena Kandasamy (India)
Robin Ngangom (India)
Roselyne Sibille (France)
Zoe Skoulding (Wales)
Raphael Urweider (Switzerland)
E oficial, cel,maimrapid roman din lume a fost omologat. „9 ore, 5 minute si 8 secunde a durat scrierea romanului
It’s official
The fastest time to produce a novel by a team of writers is 9 hours 5 minutes 8 seconds for „Moş Crăciun & Co” (Santa Claus & Co.), a collaborative book by 53 professional authors and academics (all Romania). The project was developed by Asociaţia Culturală Aedificatio together with Editura Art publishing house and the support of the Universitatea Bucureşti (all Romania). The collaborative effort took place at the “Spiru Haret” lecture theatre, University of Bucharest, Romania, on 15 December 2012.
The 53 authors are: Leonard Ancuţa, Diana Bădică, Lavinia Bălulescu, Lavinia Branişte, Anca Bucur, Marius Chivu, Laurenţiu Constantin, Bogdan Coşa, Andrei Crăciun, Augustin Cupşa, Silviu Dancu, Gabriel H. Decuble, Adrian Diniş, Luca Dinulescu, Cosmin Dragomir, Gruia Dragomir, Florin Dumitrescu, M. Duţescu, Mihail Gălăţanu, Adrian Georgescu, Silviu Gherman, Adela Greceanu, Mugur Grosu, Ioan Groşan, Florin Iaru, Marieva Ionescu, Cristina Ispas, Cosmin Manolache, Maria Manolescu, Eusebiu Matei, Marin Mălaicu-Hondrari, Mitoş Micleuşanu, Iulia Militaru, Dmitri Miticov, Oana-Cătălina Ninu, Radu Niţescu, Veronica Plăcintescu, Dan Pleşa, Matei Pleşu, Mihai Radu, Ana Maria Sandu, Elena Stancu, Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu, Alexandru Al. Şahighian, Livia Ştefan, Cecilia Ştefănescu, Silvia T., Simona Tache, Iulian Tănase, Alex Tocilescu, Răzvan Ţupa, Luiza Vasiliu, Anca Vieru. The extent of the book is 288 pages, with a total word count of 56,541. The plot, set during Christmas in Romania, was developed by narrators Gabriel H. Decuble, Florin Iaru, Răzvan Ţupa and Marius Chivu. The record attempt began at 10:20 a.m. with the conception of the original plot and characters. The developing and writing of the novel took 5 hours 35 minutes in total, after which the book was edited, proof-read and printed. The first finished copy was ready at 7:25 p.m. and the timer stopped. The book went on to have an initial print run of 1,000 copies, of which 380 copies were sold as of 31 May 2013, with the reminder of the stock shipped to the various retail outlets as of the date of the record verification. The book’s ISBN is 978-973-124-858-5 and the cover price is 25 lei (£4.50; €5.50).
FASTEST TIME TO PRODUCE A NOVEL BY A TEAM
Record: 9 hr, 5 min, 8 sec
Holder: Asociaţia Culturală Aedificatio, with Editura Art, and the Universitatea Bucureşti (all Romania)
Location: Spiru Haret lecture theatre, University of Bucharest, Romania
That’s not all: No, the group above isn’t playing a giant Free Cell tournament. It’s a portion of the team of 53 collaborators, who created the novel „Moş Crăciun & Co” (Santa Claus & Co.), totaling 288 pages and 56,541 words. To qualify, the book needed to be completely original material and bound by a commercial printer upon completion, with a print run of at least 500 copies
Acclaimed author Edmund White (A Boy’s Own Story) presents four of his favorite young and emerging queer poets: Lonely Christopher (Death & Disaster Series); Adam Fitzgerald (The Late Parade); Angelo Nikolopoulos (Obscenely Yours); and special guest, all the way from Hungary, Andras Gerevich (Tiresias’s Confession). Introductions by Edmund White. After party with dancing and revelry surely to follow at the bar Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie Street).Date: Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 7 pm
Angelo Nikolopoulos’ first book of poems is Obscenely Yours, winner of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books 2013). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012, Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, Fence, The Los Angeles Review, The New York Quarterly, Tin House, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2011 „Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest and the founder of the White Swallow Reading Series in Manhattan. He teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and lives in New York City.
Andras Gerevich was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976. He is just finishing his fourth book of poems in his native Hungarian, due out this fall. A book of his poetry in English translation, Tiresias’s Confession, came out in 2008. He has also published widely in journals and his work is translated into over a dozen languages. He has been a guest at a number of international literary and poetry festivals, and several artists’ residencies, including the legendary Yaddo in New York and the Akademie Solitude in Germany. Besides writing poetry Gerevich scripted several prize-winning short animations produced in the UK, and his plays were performed in Budapest and read in London. He also published essays and stories, and translated a number of English-speaking poets into Hungarian, including Seamus Heaney and Frank O’Hara, and a book by the filmmaker David Lynch. He was editor for two literary journals: Kalligram in Budapest and Chroma in London, an assistant producer for the radio program Poetry by Post for the BBC World Sevice, and was also the President of the József Attila Kör, the Hungarian young writers’ association from 2006 for a three year term.
My friend, Bariș, Turkish writer sent me this message. The institutions that represent state power abuse citizens.
The political power needs violence in prder to survive. Again.
It will need violence every time it looses it’s reality.
Dear friends,I would be very glad if all my friends all over the world support us against the violence of the police in Istanbul and let the world know what is happening here just know… These are photographs of just 4 days of the events… Our TV channels which belong to rich companies afraid of the government are totally blind to what is going on, so we are trying to inform the world through internet :Events started because a few young people protested the government planning to destroy a famous green area named Gezi Park in Istanbul to develop a shopping mall and the police beat them very badly, burn their tents in the park and used tear gas limitlessly, the other day a thousand people gathered in Taksim to protest violence of the police, and the police did the same thing to them, the third day more than ten thousand people protested this violence and the police again used tear gas limitlessly and beat people who can’t protect themselves, many people injured (you can see the pictures below, one is attached also), today much greater number of people are on the streets protesting the violence of the police and the government, but they are still using tear gas, beating people and the government is doing nothing saying that „they are marginal groups who are against the government so they deserve this!” I have many friends beaten who are just teachers, illustrators, authors, computer scientists, students…I know that you can’t do much but please just let the world know…For the photographs (it is being updated often) :http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/Baris Mustecaplioglu
