Claudiu Komartin
/Romania
(Romania), born in 1983. His first collection
of poems, Păpuşarul şi alte insomnii
(The Puppeteer and Other Insomnias) was
published in 2003 and received several
awards for the best first book (among them
the Mihai Eminescu National Prize). His second
collection of poems is ready and will
soon be published. He lives in Bucharest,
where he publishes poetry, essays and literary
criticism.