Magda Cârneci

Magda Cârneci is a poet, essayist, and art historian born in Romania. She took a Ph.D. in art history at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1997) and received several international grants in literature and art history (Fulbrigt, Soros, Getty, European Community). Member of the well-known “generation of the ‘80s” in Romanian literature, of which she was one of the theoreticians, after the Revolution of December 1989 she became actively involved in the political and cultural Romanian scene of the 1990s. In the 2000s, after working as a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris, she was the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris (2007 – 2010). At present, she is visiting professor at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, editor-in-chief of ARTA magazine for visual arts, and president of PEN Club Romania. She is also a member of the European Cultural Parliament.

She started her literary career in the ''România literară'' magazine, under the pen name Magdalena Ghica, which she used until 1989. She published numerous books of poetry, art criticism, and essays in Romanian and other languages, and her poems have been translated into many languages.

She is affiliated with several organizations, including: * ''Founding member and present-day president of the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS), Bucharest'' * ''Member of AICA International'' * ''Member of PEN International; president of PEN Club Romania'', 2011 - 2019 * ''Member of European Cultural Parliament (ECP)'' * ''Member of HGCEA (Historians of Central and East European Art), USA'' * ''Member of CIRET (Centre international de recherches et etudes transdisciplinaires), Paris'' * ''Member of Institut de Neuroconnectique, Paris'' * ''Member of Union of Writers in Romania (USR), Bucharest'' * ''Member of Union of Visual Artists in Romania (UAP), Bucharest'' Provided by Wikipedia