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Dan Lungu ((:dan ˈluŋɡu); born September 15, 1969) is a Romanian novelist, short story writer, poet and dramatist, also known as a literary theorist and sociologist. The recipient of critical acclaim for his short story volume ''Cheta la flegmă'' ("Quest for Phlegm") and his novels ''Raiul găinilor'' ("Chicken Paradise") and ''Sînt o babă comunistă!'' ("I'm a Communist Biddy!"), he is also one of the most successful authors to have emerged in post-1990 Romanian literature. Lungu's literary universe, which mainly comprises "microsocial" images of life under the communist regime and during the subsequent transitional period, bridges a form of Neorealism with Postmodernism. Often included among a group of authors who signed their first major contracts with Polirom publishing house, he is also seen as a distinctive voice from his adoptive provincial city of Iaşi. A lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Iaşi, and former editor in chief of ''Timpul'' newspaper, Dan Lungu is also the noted author and co-author of essays and sociological research into everyday life under communist rule, scientific preoccupations which share similarities with his work in fiction. His main interests in the area of historical research include the feminine experience of totalitarian rule, the connection between official propaganda and the actual lives of working class members, and the development of cultural attitudes in relation to communist censorship. ==Biography== Born in Botoşani city into a Romanian Orthodox family,〔 Ovidiu Şimonca, (" 'Să-ţi aminteşti de o femeie, ca s-o uiţi' (interview with Dan Lungu)" ), in ''Observator Cultural'', Nr. 469, April 2009〕 Lungu has been described as one of the ''decreţei'', or children of the baby boom imposed by the communist ban on abortion.〔 Paul Cernat, ("Dan Lungu, multilateral dezvoltat" ), in ''Observator Cultural'', Nr. 218, April 2004〕 He completed his education in Iaşi, at the local university's Sociology Department, while pursuing interests in track and field, as well as Go.〔 ("Top 50. Cei mai sexy intelectuali: 46 - Dan Lungu" ), in ''Academia Caţavencu'', March 5, 2009〕 Having received his Ph.D. with a thesis on identity formation,〔 Alexandre Fillon, ("Spécial Roumanie. Lungu, un sociologue dans le poulailler" ), in ''Lire'', November 2005〕 he later pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Paris.〔 Lungu developed a passion for writing from a young age, but debuted in literature only in the early 1990s.〔 In 1996, he and several other Iaşi-based authors founded the literary society ''Club 8'',〔〔 Şerban Axinte, ("Drama Emiliei Apostoae, dincolo de ficţiune" ), in ''Tribuna'', Nr. 117/2007〕〔 Alina Purcaru, ("Dan Lungu: 'La noi, scriitorul se comportă ca o găină cu ou de aur' " ), in ''Cotidianul'', February 27, 2009〕 and he consequently came to be seen as its main theorist.〔 Among those who frequented the circle during the following years were authors of various schools, such as Constantin Acosmei, Şerban Alexandru, Radu Andriescu, Michael Astner, Emil Brumaru, Mariana Codruţ, Gabriel Horaţiu Decuble, Radu Pavel Gheo, Florin Lăzărescu, Ovidiu Nimigean, Antonio Patraş, Dan Sociu and Lucian Dan Teodorovici.〔 The first volume bearing Lungu's signature saw print with Editura Junimea in 1996: a poetry collection, it carried the title ''Muchii'' ("Edges"). His stories, including ''Buldozeristul'' ("The Bulldozer Operator"), winner of the Editura Nemira prize for 1997, saw print in various venues during the late 1990s.〔 Costi Rogozanu, ("Dan Lungu, ''Cheta la flegmă''" ), in ''Observator Cultural'', Nr. 1, February 2000〕 Lungu also debuted as a dramatist, his work being included in two anthologies of young Romanian theater.〔 The first among these writings is the 1995 ''Lecţie. Sau ceva de genul acesta'' ("A Lesson. Or Something like That"), first performed in 2002 by Bucharest's Green Hours fringe theater under the name of ''Cu cuţitul la os'' ("A Knife Cut to the Bone"); the second such text, published in 1996, was called ''Vinovatul să facă un pas înainte'' ("Will the Guilty Man Take One Step Forward").〔 Having made his editorial debut in short story with the 1999 collection ''Cheta la flegmă'', he regularly published new works of fiction and cultural analysis over the following years. Between 2001 and 2002, he took over as editor in chief of ''Timpul''.〔 In 2003, Lungu published three books of essays on literary theory and microsociology, titled respectively ''Povestirile vieţii. Teorie şi documente'' ("Life Stories. Theories and Documents"), ''Construcţia identităţii într-o societate totalitară. O cercetare sociologică asupra scriitorilor'' ("The Construction of Identity in a Totalitarian Society. A Sociological Study on Writers") and ''Cartografii în tranziţie. Eseuri de sociologia artei şi literaturii'' ("Transitional Cartographies. Essays of Art and Literary Sociology"). Also that year came a second work in drama, ''Nuntă la parter'' ("Wedding on the Ground Floor"), and a reprint of ''Cheta la flegmă'' under the title of ''Proză cu amănuntul'' ("Retail Prose"), which also featured a dossier of critical commentary from all sides of the literary scene and an account of his visit to Transnistria, a breakaway region of Romania's neighbor Moldova, governed as an unrecognized state.〔〔 Cosmin Ciotloş, ("La închiderea ediţiei" ), in ''România Literară'', Nr. 27/2008〕 They were followed in 2004 by the novel ''Raiul găinilor''. A second volume of short stories, titled ''Băieţi de gaşcă'' (Romanian for both "Boys in a Gang" and "Good Fellows"), saw print in 2005. After joining fellow ''Club 8'' member Gheo in authoring a study of social history and microsociology, investigating impact of communist rule on Romanian women, published in 2008 as ''Tovarăşe de drum. Experienţa feminină în comunism'' ("Female Fellow Travelers. Female Experience under Communism"), Lungu returned to fiction with the 2009 novel ''Cum să uiţi o femeie'' ("How to Forget a Woman"). A resident of Iaşi, Dan Lungu is married and the father of two.〔〔 One of the first authors from the post-Revolution period to collect a steady profit from literary contributions,〔〔 Marius Chivu, ("Dragoste & pocăinţă" ), in ''Dilema Veche'', Vol. VI, Nr. 268, April 2009〕 he invested his money into a chalet on the outskirts of Iaşi.〔 He visited France in 2005, invited by the ''Belles Etrangères'' cultural exchange program,〔 and, in 2007, returned as a Writer-in-Residence at the Villa Mont Noir, Marguerite Yourcenar's birthplace.〔 He was twice nominated for the European Commission's Jean Monnet Award for Literature in 2008.〔 The target of much public interest, ''Sînt o babă comunistă!'' was considered for a film adaptation by Romanian director Stere Gulea.〔〔 Octavian Soviany, ("Un studiu de caz" ), in ''Tribuna'', Nr. 133/2008〕 As of 2009, Lungu's work had been translated into nine languages,〔〔 including a critically acclaimed French-language version of ''Raiul găinilor'' (''Le paradis des poules'', Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 2005).〔〔 Cosmin Ciotloş, ("Incapacitatea acomodării" ), in ''România Literară'', Nr. 20/2007〕〔 Andrei Terian, ("Momeala povestitorului" ), in ''Ziarul Financiar'', September 7, 2007〕 In its Spanish translation, published in 2009, ''Sînt o babă comunistă!'' was included by ''El País'' daily in a "best of" chart for humorous literature.〔 Jan Cornelius, ("Râsul lumii" ), in ''Revista 22'', Nr. 1078〕 Also in 2009, a chart compiled by the satirical and lifestyle magazine ''Academia Caţavencu'' ranked Lungu 46th among the "50 sexiest Romanian intellectuals".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan Lungu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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