Augustin Cupșa
Augustin Cupșa | |
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| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
Augustin Cupșa (born 1980, in Craiova, Romania) is a Romanian writer and screenwriter. He initially obtained his diploma as a psychiatrist and practiced for some years in Bucharest and Paris. His first novel, Perforatorii, published in 2006, won him the Opera Prima prize awarded by the Writers Union of Romania at the National Union of Romanian Patronage Gala and the presence at Jeux de la Francophonie 2009, section Littérature, in Beirut, representing Romania.[1]
Work
In 2013, he was a writer in residence at International House of Authors in Graz, Austria.[2]
His second novel, Așa să crească iarba pe noi, published in 2017, was shortlisted for PEN Prize Romania,[3] for the Writers Union of Romania Prize Constantin Țoiu and was nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature 2019.[4]
As a screenwriter he won the HBO Romania Prize for short script[5] at Transilvania International Film Festival in 2006 and later on the European Alliance for Television and Culture bursary for screenwriting in Geneva. He collaborated with HBO to adapt the original series BeTipul in Romania (În derivă,2010–2012).[6] He co-wrote Ceață (Fog, 2017) which won the Grand Prix at Festival Premiers Plans d`Angers, Sankt Petersburg Message to Man International Film Festival and the Special Mention of the Jury at Brussels International Film Festival.[7] He also co-wrote Fructe necoapte (Unripe Fruit, 2018).
In 2020, he was selected for a writing residence in Tirana, Albania within Reading Balkans Residency.[8] In 2021 a revised and completed edition of his short stories volume "Marile bucurii și marile tristeți” was released by Humanitas Publishing House[9]
In 2022, he was awarded the BMEIA/Q21 writer residence in Museum Quartier, Vienna[10] and the Hungarian Writers` Residence at Zsolnay Cultural Quarter in Pécs[11] to develop his new literary project, a prose book on emigration and the imaginary of the foreigness . Eventually the long stories book Străinătate (Foreigness) was released at the end of 2022. Străinătate was nominated at the Romania Union of Writers Awards[12] and it earned the Best Book Prize of the Association of Literary Editors, Printings and Literary[13]
In 2023, his first book for children was released: 2 furnici și 1 elefant. De la un capăt al lumii la ceălalt (2 ants & 1 elephant. From one end of the world to another) a laugh-out-loud graphic novel which shortly became a best seller at Gaudeamus Book Fair.[14][15] It was awarded the National Prize for Literature for children and youngsters by the Union of Writers in Romania,[16][17][18] gaining also public acclaim.
Biography
He is a descendant in a group of historic families coming from the North of Transylvania, bearing the name of Cupșa and tied to the commune of Cupșeni of which Samuil Cupșa,[19] dean of Lăpuș 1870 - 1905, is his great-great-grandfather, Augustin S. Cupșa, priest and delegate for the Great National Assembly in Alba Iulia 1918 [20] is his great-grandfather and Augustin V. Cupșa, medical doctor and writer,[21] vice chancellor [22] of the University of Medicine in Craiova (1998 -2015) is his father.
Bibliography
Perforatorii (novel), Cartea Românească Publishing, 2006
Profesorul Bumb și macii suedezi (short stories), Cartea Românească Publishing, 2009
Marile bucurii și marile tristeți(short stories), Trei Publishing, 2013, Humanitas Publishing House, 2021
Velike radosti i velike tuge (Serbian translation of Marile bucurii și marile tristeți), Partizanska Knjiga, 2017
Așa să crească iarba pe noi (novel), Humanitas Publishing, 2017
Străinătate (prose), Humanitas Publishing, 2022
2 furnici si 1 elefant. De la un capăt al lumii la celălalt (children book), Humanitas Publishing House, 2023
Nouvelles de Roumanie, collection Miniatures (collective anthologies of short stories), Éditions Magellan & Cie, 2024 ISBN 978-2-35074-779-8
Filmography
În Derivă, HBO Romania Productions and Factor Films, 2010, 2012
Ceață (Fog), Axel Films, 2017
Fructe necoapte (Unripe fruit), Libra Film Productions, 2019
References
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Kulturvermittlung Steiermark". www.kulturvermittlung.org.
- ↑ "Premiul Pen România 2018 – lista scurtă". Observator Cultural.
- ↑ "EUPL 2019 shortlisted candidates | EU Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Archived from the original on 2020-12-30. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
- ↑ SA, Imedia Plus Group. "TIFF 2006 la final!". Cinemagia.
- ↑ "În derivã (TV Series 2010– ) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ "Fog" – via www.imdb.com.
- ↑ "Reading Balkans Residency 2020 – Open Call Results". Reading Balkans. 31 January 2020.
- ↑ "Marile bucurii și marile tristeți".
- ↑ "Q21 Artist-in-Residence Augustin Cupșa".
- ↑ "A psychiatrist-writer in Pécs".
- ↑ "Uniunea Scriitorilor din România - Nominalizări la Premiile Uniunii Scriitorilor din România pentru anul 2022".
- ↑ "Uniunea Scriitorilor din România - Premiile Uniunii Scriitorilor din România pentru anul 2022".
- ↑ "Bestsellerurile Humanitas, Humanitas Fiction și Humanitas Junior la Gaudeamus 2023".
- ↑ "Gaudeamus, ediţia 30 - "Mai mult ca trecutul", de Ana Blandiana, cea mai râvnită carte a târgului. Humanitas, Polirom şi Litera, cele mai agreate edituri/ Topul vânzărilor". 26 November 2023.
- ↑ "Au fost decernate premiile Uniunii Scriitorilor; Ion Mureşan - Poezie, Adrian G. Romila - Proză". 31 May 2024.
- ↑ "Gala Premiilor Uniunii Scriitorilor din România". 8 June 2024.
- ↑ "Premiile Uniunii Scriitorilor din România: Adrian Popescu, Ion Mureşan, Adrian G. Romila, Adrian Papahagi, Augustin Cupşa, Vlad Alexandrescu, între câştigători". June 2024.
- ↑ "Istoria impresionantă a bisericii din lemn de la Cupşeni. Este considerat printre cele mai mici lăcaşe de cult din lemn care au supravieţuit în România". 28 September 2018.
- ↑ https://anuarfto.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/anuarfto/article/download/8/8/22&ved=2ahUKEwjOl9r0wZ-JAxUdAdsEHUCLHxIQFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1rtyIVVCdjKg46Cwwar0Vh
- ↑ "50 de ani de la apariția revistei Napoca Universitară, un proiect aparte".
- ↑ <rev>https://old.umfcv.ro/files/c/v/CV%2520Prof%2520univ%2520dr%2520Cupsa%2520Augustin%2520Mircea.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjjpdT3w5-JAxWj8bsIHVpHBY8QFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1eHQ64TnuLf4-9vYsiBctv