Paula Erizanu – KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence October guest

20 Oct Paula Erizanu – KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence October guest

Talk with Paula Erizanu
Moderated by: Stefana Pekez
Language: English
Tuesday, October 25, 7pm
KROKODIL’s Center, Karađorđeva 43 (entrance from the Male stepenice street)

On Tuesday, October 25, starting at 7 pm in KROKODIL’s Center, we will present a young author and journalist from Moldova, Paula Erizanu, who is KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence October guest. Apart from her literary and journalistic work, we will also talk with Paula about the contemporary literary and cultural scene in Moldova and Romania, about feminism, the Soviet legacy and post-Soviet transformations and challenges in Eastern Europe, and we will pay special attention to the novel she is currently working on and which is a sequel to her debut novel about the early Soviet feminists Alexandra Kollontai and Inessa Armand.

Paula Erizanu was born in Chisinau, Moldova, in 1992, and have studied, worked as a journalist in London for 10 years, collaborating with the BBC, The Guardian, London Review of Books and other publications. She is also an award-winning Romanian-language author. Her first book, a diary from the 2009 mass protests in Moldova, This is my first revolution. Steal It (Cartier, 2010, trilingual edition), won UNESCO Germany’s Most Beautiful Book of the Year award. She also authored a poetry collection, Take Care (Charmides, 2015), and edited the pioneering three-part anthology A Century of Romanian Poetry Written by Women (Cartier, 2019-2021), together with the poet and critic Alina Purcaru. Her debut novel, The Woods Are Burning, a fictionalised historical account of the lives of early Soviet feminists Alexandra Kollontai and Inessa Armand, was published in 2021, winning the Young Writer of the Year Award at Romania’s Young Writers’ Gala and being shortlisted for the Sofia Nădejde Prize in Bucharest, Romania, and Festival du Premier Roman in Chambery, France. 

Paula Erizanu’s stay at KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence is supported by the European literary network Traduki.