Two voices, one story: Romanian literature in Dutch, Letterenhuis Antwerpen, 26/03/2025

𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 : 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 is a literary event taking place in Antwerpen this Wednesday 26th March 2025, in English and Dutch, organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels. The special guests of the event are the novelist Ruxandra Burcescu presenting her recent book titled „Instabielen elementen” and the Dutch translator Charlotte Van Rooden. The moderator of the literary debate, Philip Meersman, is a Belgian poet and Cultural Project Manager Transpoesie at EUNIC.

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📅 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝟖 :𝟎𝟎📍 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐮𝐢𝐬, 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧

Admission to the event is 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞, based on registration at: 𝐢𝐜𝐫.𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦.

„Instabil” in Romanian or „Instabiele elementen” in Dutch is a novel mean to bring more light from a dark period in Romania’s recent history. Combined with individual stories, the meta structure of the novel depicts the existence of an era and its specific elements raging from personal to universal. After all, what is literature about? And what is translation about? Young translator and already with an important portofolio, Charlotte Van Rooden contributes to bringing under the reading lamplight of Dutch and Flemish readers the emergent Romanian language literature.

Presented in Amsterdam this Sunday 23rd March, the novel „Instabiele elementen” by Ruxandra Burcescu, translated by Charlotte Van Rooden, was in the company of the novel „Kinderland” by Liliana Corobca, translated by Jan Willem Bos, in a musical and pious atmosphere at the Dominicuskerk.

Fotografii: ICR Bruxelles, Liliana Corobca