Moldovan writer gets prize from Romania

Chisinau, 22 January /MOLDPRES/ - Paula Erizanu has got the prize for the literary experiment, Gheorghe Iova – texting, the second issue, from Romania. The prize consists of the diploma made by fine artist Catalin Guguianu plus his monthly pension received from the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Romani, as well as the Iova Lion – transmissible lion from one winner of the prize to another.   

The first issue of the prize for literary experiment, Gheorghe Iova – texting, was held in January 2020. This is a testamentary prize, awarded as a result of a wish by Gheorghe Iova, to poet and journalist Razvan Tupa, who has the task to transmit the prize further in 2021.  

Paula Erizanu was born in Chisinau in 1992. She studied history and literature at New College of the Humanities from London and then journalism at the City University London. Erizanu wrote about the 2009 protests from Moldova in the volume titled Aceasta e prima mea revoluție. Furați-mi-o (This is my first revolution. Steal it from me). The book enjoyed great media attention in Chisinau, and was awarded the prize for debut of the Writers’ Union, as well as the most popular book of the Ion Creanga National Library, being nominated also for the Cultural Observer prizes, debut category. The book was translated into English by the author, then in French, Czech, German and afterwards she received the international UNESCO award for the nicest production of book of the 2011 year at the Leipzig Book Fair.    

Gheorghe Iova (born on 29 January 1950) - a writer and conscience, whose ideas and theories about the texting practice were quite precious for the authors of the last decades, died in the summer of 2019.