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| With Professor Donald Riggs in Philadelphia, 2011 |
I was delighted to receive
this link today, taking me through to a summary of what has been a truly international rollercoaster of a decade for Daniel Dragomirescu and his colleagues who work tirelessly across languages and genres to produce
Orizont Literar Contemporan, the self-styled 'world in a journal'.
This literary magazine, celebrating its
60th issue, has now been in production for ten years, and you have only to read the summary of its history to see how it has evolved, expanded and diversified during this time. There is a huge library of multicultural books and now a
Dictionary of writers' biographies.
Thanks to Daniel, Katherine Gallagher and others, I have been associated with the journal for much of its existence. It has been a pleasure to introduce a number of poet friends from Wales and elsewhere through my early Dialoguri interviews, and friends from Suffolk and beyond through other ventures. It has been a wonderful way of making new literary friends, too, from a range of countries.
I am grateful to the teams of translators (see
this post by Anne Stewart) who work so hard behind the scenes, ensuring that a poem, for example, can appear in up to three languages, most frequently Romanian, Spanish and English.
Many happy returns to Daniel and his A Team! Here's to the next decade and the next 60+ issues...
