O. Nimigean was born on 19 July 1962. He graduated from the Alexandru I. Cuza University in Jassy with a degree in philology. Shortly after he began publishing poetry in the early 1990s, he garnered the reputation of being one of the freshest and most original voices in Romanian poetry.
Nimigean is known for reinventing old forms and breathing new life into them. He reshapes the sonnet, ballad and elegy by making pastiches and satires of the classic poetic forms. This results in an eclectic voice: a blend of irony, sarcasm, political commentary and heart-felt lyricism.
Nimigean published steadily throughout the years and has been translated and anthologized in many different languages and countries.
Bibliography
Poetry
Scrieri alese (Selected writings). Editura Pan, 1992
Week-end printre mutanți (Weekend among mutants). Editura Pan, 1993
Adio adio dragi poezii (Adieu, adieu, dear poems). Editura OuTopos, 1999
Planeta 0 (Planet Zero). Editura Junimea, 2002
Nicolina blues, Editura Cartea Românească, 2007
Nanabozo, Editura Cartea Românească, 2014
Prose
Mortido. Versus, 2003
Rădăcina de bucsau. Polirom, 2010
As editor
Ozone Friendly. Jassy, Literary Reconfigurations. 2002
Hat jemand etwas gefragt? Lyrikanthologie CLUB 8 – Jassy, Rumänien. With Michael Astner. Versus, 2005
Oesterreichisches Gegenwartsprosa. With Michael Astner and Johannes Gelich. Wieser Verlag, 2005
In anthologies
Strieflicht. Eine Auswahl zeitgenössischer rumänischer Lyrik. Dionyssos Verlag, 1994
City of dreams and whispers. Centre for Romanian Studies, 1998
Club 8 Poetry. 2001
Speaking the silence. Paralela 45, 2001
Grenzverkehr. Literarische Streifzüge zwischen Ost und West. Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, 2006
A critical panorama of Twentieth-Century Romanian poetry. Pontica, 2007
New European poets. Graywolf Press, Minnesota, 2008
The vanishing point that whistles. Talisman House, Aberdeen, 2011
Of gentle wolves. Calypso Editions, Philadelphia, 2011
Links
Profile on Contemporary Romanian Writers
Two poems in translation and with audio recordings on Qarrtsiluni
Video of Nimigean reading ‘Radacina de bucsau’ at the Institutul Blecher
