Her most well-known work, Dimineaţa Pierdută (1983, Wasted Morning), provided the story for one of Romania’s most successful plays. As president of the Romanian PEN, she was a writer in residence in the USA (Iowa City, 1990 Ledig House, 2004) and France (Arles, 2000 Saint-Nazaire, 2004).Īdameşteanu’s first novel, Drumul egal al fiecărei zile (1975, The Equal Way of Every Day), describes daily life in the sixties, alternating between the themes of a young girl’s éducation sentimentale and success and failure in life. In 2002, she received the Hellman-Hammett grant from Human Rights Watch in recognition of her advocacy work. In 1990, she became a member of the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS), the first Romanian NGO. She studied Romanian language and literature at the University of Bucharest and worked as an editor for publishers of literature and reference works. Gabriela Adameşteanu was born in Târgu Ocna, Romania, in 1942.
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