Igor Ursenco (born 9 February 1971) is a
Moldova
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n-born Romanian poet, fiction writer, screenwriter,
culturologist Culturology or the science of culture is a branch of social sciences concerned with the scientific understanding, description, analysis, and prediction of cultures as a whole. While ethnology and anthropology studied different cultural practices, ...
, pedagogue, political analyst, and polyglot translator.
Igor Ursenco is the matrilineal descendant from Northern
Bessarabia
Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of ...
n dynasty of scholar
Marcu Văluță, director of the interwar publication ''Moldovan Thought''. In late October 2012 he was appointed to organise the
Romanian Cultural Institute
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in
Kyiv
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as a Deputy Coordinator.
As a catalyst of ''pneumatic motion of the text'', Igor Ursenco is known also as a polyvalent author and the promoter of critical integrative method ''theo-e-retikon''. Igor Ursenco has adopted since his debut book the artistic celebration of the spiritual alterity.
Ursenco is a sporadic contributor to the literature and culture
e-zine
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s ''
EgoPhobia'' and ''
Europe's Times and Unknown Waters'', and the scientific journal ''
Metaliteratura'' published by the
Moldavian Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Philology at
Ion Creanga University. In 2016, he received a PhD in Letters ''Magna cum laude'
Works
Poetry
•
exFaustiv, Integral Publishing House, Bucharest, October 2020;
•
Poetically incorrect, Rafet Publishing House, Ramnicu Sarat, 2015, The Contest Poetry Winner
Editura Rafet
•
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (thriller poems), Tracus Arte Publishing House, Bucharest, 2012;
• apoptosium (a recital for a regnum not classified yet),
Franc Tireur USA Publishing House, New York, USA, 2010 – nominated by
boomlit.com among „The Books of 2010” and included in The Long List of the „Observator cultural”/ Cultural Observer Awards, in „Poetry” section;
• The Clause of the Most Favored Maramures and Basarabia Contemporary Poetry (International Lyrical Anthology, Limes Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2010;
•
„Logos”, My Father : My Mother
„Imago”, Heterotypic genealogy in archetypal texts, Limes Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2009
Prose
• Moldavian Kaïros (a thriller novel), Blumenthal Publishing House, Bucharest, 2012;
• A Zero Degree Alert in the Current Romanian Short Prose, Herg Benet Publishers Publishing House, Bucharest, 2011;
• S.T.E.P. (short stories), Herg Benet Publishers Publishing House, Bucharest, 2011
Transcultural Essays
• EgoBesTiaR (trans-cultural essays), Herg Benet Publishers Publishing House, Bucharest, 2011;
• Teo-e-retikon (Trans-Cultural Essays & Meta-Semantic Glosses), Eikon Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2009, awarded by Maramures County Council and the Baia Mare Mayoralty with the distinction of ”The Books of 2009 – section: essays”
Film scripts and plays
• The Akashic Retina (film scripts and plays), Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2009
Published texts foreign languages (English, Spanish, Hungarian)
•
Red RoomWriters Community
•
The Caterpillar Chronicles online Literary Journal
•
The Fwriction Reviewonline Literary Journal
•
Ego Phobiaonline Literary Journal
• International
Hungarian PEN Club Multilingual Anthology (
Pécs
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Writers Camp - 2012)
•
Arte Poetica
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, Album Nocturno
Miscellaneous
• Distributed Actor in the
Jeff Goldblum
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...
&
Greta Scacchi
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starring movie
One of the Hollywood Ten
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The drama focuses on screenwriter/ director Herbert Biberman and his efforts to make what would become the historic politica ...
(Madrid, 2000)
• Finalist of the Folk Music Festival „Yellow Quince” the first edition (Chisinau, 1990)
Affiliations
* Member of the P.E.N. Club Romania (2013)
* Writers' Union of Romania (2012)
* Writers' Union of Republic of Moldova (2010)
Liceo Poetico de Benidorm(Alicante, Spain)
Opera scrisa.ro
External links
Poetry Quote SamplesGoodreads Page
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Romanian essayists
Romanian literary critics
21st-century Romanian novelists
Romanian male novelists
21st-century Romanian poets
Romanian male poets
Romanian male short story writers
Romanian short story writers
Romanian translators
Postmodern writers
Romanian male essayists
21st-century short story writers
21st-century essayists
1971 births
Living people
21st-century male writers
21st-century translators