Fiction. Essays. With a preface by Andrei Codrescu. "Carmen's sybilline and hypocratic personae are evident in this book of FLESH & WORDS, as are her fabulous storytelling gifts. She is simultaneously the Chekhov of Queens and the Sorceress of the Carpathians."—Andrei Codrescu
Author City: New York, NY USA
Carmen Firan, Romanian born, is a poet, a fiction and a play writer. She has published in her native country twenty books of poetry, novels, essays, and short stories. She is also the author of several plays and film scripts. Since 2000 she has been living in New York. Her writings appear in translation in many literary magazines and in various anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, U K, and the USA.
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