Liliana Corobca (born 10 October 1975 in Săseni) is a Moldovan writer and censorship scholar.

She is a graduate of the Moldova State University, and a University of Bucharest. She was a scientific researcher at the "G. Călinescu" Institute of History and Literary Theory in Bucharest from 2002 to 2011. She is an editor, and expert in the field of the exile of Romanians during Romania's communist regime, and researcher at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile. She has published several books on censorship.[1][unreliable source?]

She appeared at the 2024 London Book Fair.[2]

Works edit

As author edit

  • Negrissimo. ARC. 2003. ISBN 9789975613125.
  • The Character in Inter‑war Romanian Novels. 2003.
  • Un an in Paradis: Roman [A Year in Paradise] (in Romanian). Cartea Românească. 2005. ISBN 9789732315545.
  • Der erste Horizont meines Lebens: Roman [My Life’s First Horizon] (in Romanian). Paul Zsolnay Verlag. 2013. ISBN 9783552057463.[3]
  • The Old Maids’ Empire. 2015.
  • Capătul drumului: Roman (in Romanian). Polirom. 2018. ISBN 9789734672127.
  • The Censor's Notebook: A Novel. Translated by Cure, Monica. Seven Stories Press. 2022. ISBN 9781644211519.[4][5][6][7]
  • Kinderland: A Novel. Seven Stories Press. 2023. ISBN 9781644213285.[8][9][10]

As editor edit

References edit

  1. ^ adriana. "Liliana Corobca - Curriculum vitae". IICCMER (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2023-09-23. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  2. ^ Vasiliu, Oana (2024-03-06). "350 Romanian literary works showcased at London Book Fair". Business Review (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  3. ^ "My Life's First Horizon". Hanser Literaturverlage. Archived from the original on 2024-03-08. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  4. ^ "The Censor's Notebook by Liliana Corobca". Publishers Weekly. 2022-08-10. Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  5. ^ Janney, Matthew (2022-11-17). "The Censor's Notebook — an intimate exposé of totalitarian Romania". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2022-12-01. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  6. ^ Oldweiler, Cory (2022-10-25). "Sing On in the Face of Horror: On Liliana Corobca's "The Censor's Notebook"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2024-03-08. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  7. ^ Cernusakova, Barbora (2022-10-20). "BOOK REVIEW: THE CENSOR'S NOTEBOOK". Litro Magazine USA. Archived from the original on 2023-05-29. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  8. ^ Rybakova, Maria (2024-02-28). "Fear Is a Sickness: On Liliana Corobca's "Kinderland"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2024-03-08. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  9. ^ Preston, Alex (2023-11-19). "Kinderland by Liliana Corobca review – a bleak but beautiful tale of survival". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Archived from the original on 2024-03-01. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  10. ^ "Kinderland — a poignant story of Moldova's abandoned children". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  11. ^ Ionescu, Arleen (2022). "Panorama comunismului în România. Ed. Liliana Corobca. Iași: Polirom, 2020. 1152 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Ron 99, hard bound". Slavic Review. 81 (1). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 224–226. doi:10.1017/slr.2022.108. ISSN 0037-6779.
  12. ^ Dobre, Claudia-Florentina (October 2023). "An overview of post-communist Romania". CEU Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2024-03-08.