Author Reading

Diana Radovan
Our Voices

Sat. 12 October 2024
19:00

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Through personal storytelling, including a child's perspective, terse poetry, myths, fairy-tales, imagery, social and political criticism, as well as some utopias/manifestos, Our Voices is an overcoming of the persistent horrors of communism and immigration; a book about living in the in-betweens and dreaming ourselves into more than mere survival; an invitation to its readers to bring out their own buried “shameful” family stories, to let them breathe and find resonance in the bigger world.

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Romanian-born, Diana Radovan has lived in Germany and Canada since 2004. She is based in the Rosenheim area, where she works in sustainability, hikes in the Alps, and guides forest bathing walks. Find out more at www.naturewriting.net or follow her on instagram @dianaradovanwriter.

Radovan's creative writing (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid forms) has been: a winner in the Borders Text+Bild contest and in the 25 H Hotel Story Jam; a finalist in Tupelo Quarterly’s Prose Open Contest; longlisted for the Disquiet International Literary Prize and the Virginia Woolf Short Fiction Award.

Her poetry and prose have been published since 2004 in English, German, and Romanian by LiterNet, Flash Fiction Magazine, Poetry Breakfast, Wild Roof Journal, and many other journals and anthologies. She holds a PhD in Biophysical Chemistry from TU/IMPRS Dortmund and an Editor in the Life Sciences certification.

About the hybrid memoir Our Voices:

"The impulse to write memoir is almost always deeply personal, the urge to express experience as only that particular author can. Diana’s book Our Voices uses a child’s point of view at the start to express the extreme political events she witnessed growing up in Timișoara, Romania, behind the so-called Iron Curtain. Innocence gives way to experience as the child grows to understand three generations of her family’s story in the context of larger history, while pursuing advanced degrees in other countries and traveling the world. As Diana has navigated the repercussions of “being from” that “other” (Eastern) Europe, she has taken on the task of giving voice to the reality. It is the writing itself that engages the reader, offering a poetic lyricism to the places and events she describes. Adventurous in spirit, a nature lover, a city wanderer, a photographer, and a bright mind, Diana’s outlook is truly international. In these times especially, her story, her many stories, need to be written and heard." - Marianne Rogoff, author of Silvie’s Life and Pushcart Prize nominee

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