Vasile Gârnet Interview
This program focuses on Vasile Gârnet and he sits down for an interview with Winston Barclay. Carrie Messenger from the Writers’ Workshop assists in some translation. Vâsile speaks of the political state Moldova finds itself in and how poverty has affected his country and how this culture has affected his writing. Gârnet speaks about his role as director of a Moldovan magazine, Contrafort, and how it aims to write about current, upcoming literature in the region. Gârnet also talks about his process for writing poetry.
In: International Writing Program Archive | Poetry
Authors: Vasile Garnet
Date Recorded: January 01, 1998
Works Read: Related Works: The magazine Contrafort; Vasile Gârnet's book of poetry The Witness Character in a Forgotten Garden.
Program: --
Format: interview
Contributors: Winston Barclay, Carrie Messenger.
Topics: Moldovian literature; Romanian alphabet; translation from Moldovian to Romanian; Russian influence in Moldova; poetry writing
Note: Month and day are unknown. From the Autumn in Iowa Series. Recording begins with someone already in the middle of speaking and then cuts to the interview.