Dora Pavel (born June 29, 1946) is a
Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.
Biography
Born as Dora Voicu to Viorica Pop and Eugen Voicu, both teachers, Dora Pavel graduated from the Decebal College in
Deva (1964), and the Faculty of Letters of the
Babeş-Bolyai University in
Cluj (1969).
She graduated Decebal College in
Deva (1964), and the Faculty of Letters of the
Babeş-Bolyai University in
Cluj (1969). She became professor of Romanian language in
Alba Iulia and
Deva, then researcher at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary History in Cluj; since 1990, she has worked as editor at the local Radio Station of Cluj, where she specialises in topics of Romanian language and literature.
Armele seducţiei (Weapons of Seduction; Dialogues), Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2007.
Rege şi ocnaş (King and Prisoner), Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2008.
Gheorghe Grigurcu, O provocare adresată destinului. Convorbiri cu Dora Pavel, Satu Mare, Pleiade, 2009.
Anthologies
Young Poets of a New Romania, London & Boston, Forest Books, 1991.
Transylvanian Voices. An Anthology of Contemporary Poets of Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi, The Center for Romanian Studies, 1997.
Vid Tystnadens Bord, Stockholm, Symposion, 1998.
Poètes roumains contemporains, Ottawa, Écrits des Forges, 2000.
Il romanzo rumeno contemporaneo (1989-2010). Teorie e proposte di lettura, a cura di Nicoleta Nesu, edizione italiana di Angela Tarantino, premessa di Luisa Valmarin, Bagatto Libri, Roma, 2010.
Fiction 16: Contemporary Romanian Prose, Iaşi, Ed. Polirom, 2010.
Editions
Biblia de la Blaj (1795) (The Bible of Blaj), Rome (in collaboration with Tipografia Vaticana), 2000
Petru Poantă, Dicţionar de poeţi. Clujul contemporan (Dictionary of Poets. The Contemporary Cluj), Cluj, Ed. Clusium, 1999, pp. 141–143.
Ion Bogdan Lefter, Scriitori români din anii '80-'90. Dicţionar bio-bibliografic (Romanian Writers of the '80s and '90s. Bio-Bibliographic Dictionary), vol. III, Piteşti, Ed. Paralela 45, 2001, pp. 27–28.
Laurenţiu Ulici, Prima verba, vol. IV, București, Ed. Muzeul Literaturii Române, 2004, pp. 345–346.
Henri Zalis, O istorie condensată a literaturii române (1880–2000) (A Concise History of Romanian Literature), vol. I, Târgovişte, Ed. Bibliotheca, 2005, pp. 193–195.
Dicţionarul general al literaturii române (The General Dictionary of Romanian Literature), P-R, București, Ed. Univers Enciclopedic, 2006, pp. 109–110.
Aurel Sasu, Dicţionarul biografic al literaturii române (The Biographic Dictionary of Romanian Literature), M-Z, Piteşti, Ed. Paralela 45, 2006, p. 310.
Dicţionar analitic de opere literare româneşti (The Analytic Dictionary of Romanian Literary Works), final edition, vol. I, Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2007, pp. 20–22.