Linda Maria Baros (born 6 August 1981) is a French-language poet, translator and literary critic. She has won the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 2007 and The Poetical Calling Prize in 2004. She lives in Paris, France. She has been a member of the Académie Mallarmé since 2013. Her poems have been published in 25 countries.
Education Baros attended the Central School in Bucharest and the Victor Duruy High School in Paris. She earned a PhD in comparative literature from the Paris-Sorbonne University and University of Bucharest in 2011.
Publications Baros has been a member of the Romanian Writers' Union since 2002. She was the founder and director of the literary review VERSUs/m (Bucharest) in 2005 and the assistant secretary for the Romanian Literature Translators' Association since 2006 and La Nouvelle Pléiade Association since 2009. Between 2009 and 2010 she was the poetry editor of the literary review Seine et Danube. She was associate editor of the scientific review "Cinematographic Art & Documentation", Hyperion University, from 2010 and editor-in-chief of the French-English literary review La Traductière since 2013.
Events Baros initiated and co-organised the Le Printemps des Poètes/Primavara Poetilor (Spring of Poets festival) in Romania in 2005 , the Republic of Moldavia in 2006 and Australia in 2007. She was the cultural ambassador of Romania during the European Cultural Season in France in 2008. Between 2010 and 2012 Baros was a member of the jury of the Prix Max-Pol Fouchet (Max-Pol Fouchet Poetry Prize).
She was general secretary of the Collège de Littérature comparée (The College of Comparative Literature) from 2011 and a member of the Mallarmé Academy (Académie Mallarmé) since 2013. General secretary of Guillaume Apollinaire Prize since 2013
Literary prizes 2001: Translation Prize Les Plumes de l'Axe, France 2001: The Poetry Prize of the Cultural Commission of the Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris IV, France 2002: Translation Prize of the International Academy Mihai Eminescu, Romania 2004: Prix de la Vocation (The Poetical Calling Prize) for Le Livre de signes et d'ombres, Cheyne éditeur, France 2007: Prix Guillaume Apollinaire (The Apollinaire Prize) for La Maison en lames de rasoir, Cheyne éditeur, France 2008: Ion Minulescu National Poetry Prize, Romania 2013: Top poetry prize Nichita Stănescu - Writers' Union of Moldavia
Literary works She made her debut in 1988 with a poem published in a literary review from Bucharest.
Poetry (The Highway A4 and other poems), Cheyne éditeur, France, 2009, (The House Made of Razor Blades), Cheyne éditeur, France, 2006, , republished in 2008 (The Book of Signs and Shadows), Cheyne éditeur, France, 2004. (The Poem with a Wild Boar Head), Vinea Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003 (The Sunset is Far Away, Rip off His Ribbon!), Bucharest, 2001.
Poems in translation De autosnelweg A4 en andere gedichten (The Highway A4 and other poems), translated by Jan H. Mysjkin, Poeziecentrum, Belgium, 2014 Bārdasnažu asmeņu nams (The House Made of Razor Blades), translated by Dagnija Dreika, Daugava, Riga, Latvia, 2011 Къща от бръснарски ножчета (The House Made of Razor Blades), translated by Aksinia Mihailova, Foundation for the Bulgarian Literature Publishing House, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2010 Casa din lame de ras (The House Made of Razor Blades), Editura Cartea Româneasca, Bucharest, Roumanie, 2006 Il est loin le soleil couchant, arrache-lui le ruban ! (The Sunset is Far Away, Rip off His Ribbon!), AMB, Bucharest, 2003
Baros' poems were published in over 25 countries, in anthologies and literary reviews, as, for example, Pleiades (United States of America) or Poetry Review, Horizon Review (England).
Her poems have also been published in Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Mexico, Serbia, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia, Ukraine, Republic of Moldavia, Latvia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Iran, Japan and Finland.
In 2011, the "Arthur Rimbaud" Museum in France commissioned Canadian sculptor Michel Goulet to engrave some of Linda Maria Baros' lines of poetry on an objet d'art made of stainless steel.
Baros took part in over 500 poetry readings and in over 50 poetry festivals.
Drama Marile spirite nu se ocupă niciodată de nimicuri (Great Spirits never Deal with Trifles), The Romanian Literature Museum Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003 A venit la mine un centaur... (A Centaur Came to My Place...), META, Bucharest, 2003. This play was also published in French – Un centaure est venu chez moi..., Bucharest, 2002.
Literary studies Passer en carène (To Careen), The Romanian Literature Museum Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005 Les Recrues de la damnation (The Recruits of Damnation), The Romanian Literature Museum Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005
Translations Baros has translated over 30 books: Romanian to French poetry: Nichita Stănescu, Angela Marinescu, Marta Petreu, Ioan Es. Pop, Mircea Bârsila, Floarea Țuțuianu, Magda Cârneci, Simona Popescu French/English/Spanish/Dutch to Romanian: Henri Michaux, Boris Vian, Guy Goffette, Colette Nys-Mazure, José Luis Reina Palazón, Maria Antonia Ortega, Jan H. Mysjkin, Alphonse Daudet, Johanna Spyri, James Oliver Curwood
In 2008, she created La Bibliothèque Zoom, a virtual library that includes 140 authors.
Anthologies (The Order of Fire), Collette Nys-Mazure, AMB, Romania, 2005 (The Unwords and Other Poems), Nichita Stănescu, Éditions Textuel, France, 2005 (20 authors - Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry) in Confluences poétiques, no. 3, France, 2009 / (No Exit), Ioan Es. Pop, Éditions L’Oreille du Loup, France, 2010 (I Eat my Lines), Angela Marinescu, Éditions L’Oreille du Loup, France, 2011 (I Heal with My Tongue), Floarea Țuțuianu, Editions Caractères, France, 2013. (The Apocalypse of Marta), Marta Petreu, Editions Caractères, France, 2013 (Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry. 1990-2013, 13 authors), Tracus Arte, 2013).
Reviews She has collaborated with the following poetry, literary criticism and translation reviews: The Poetry Review (UK), Horizon Review (UK), Pleiades (USA), International Notebook of Poetry (USA), Language & créativité (Canada), Contre-jour, Po&sie, Aujourd'hui poème, NUNC, Poésie 2003, Europe, Seine et Danube, La Revue littéraire, Pyro, Confluences poétiques, Ici & Là, MIR, La traductière, Hauteurs, Littérales, Le Capital des mots, Thauma, L’Écho d’Orphée, Le Bateau Fantôme, La page blanche, Levure Littéraire (France), Observator München, Galateea (Germany), Bunker Hill (Netherlands), Alora, la bien cercada, El Coloquio de los Perros, ABC (Spain), Poëziekrant, Deus ex machina, Le Journal des Poètes, Langue vive, Revolver (Belgium), Scritture Migranti, Formafluens (Italy), La Revue de Belles Lettres (Switzerland), Le Quotidien, Tageblatt, Le Jeudi (Luxembourg), Poetika, Zlatna greda, Književni list, Gradina (Serbia), Lirikon 21 (Slovenia), 'România literară', Viața Românească (Romania), Luceafărul (Romania), , Ziua literară, Arges, Calende, Tribuna, Familia, Apostrof (Romania), Astra, Noua literatură, Conta, Arca (Romania), Électron libre (Morocco), Shirdanra (Bangladesh), Beagle (Japan)
Schoolbooks The poem The Mine Horses was included into Limba si literatura română. Manual de clasa a XII-a (Romanian language and literature. 12th-grade schoolbook), Paralela 45 Publishing House, 2007, Bucharest, Romania.
Anthologies Baros' poems have been published in over 40 anthologies: L'année poétique 2005 (The Poetical Year 2005), by Patrice Delbourg and Jean Luc Maxence, Éditions Seghers, France, 2006 Literatura tânără 2007 (Young Literature 2007), The Romanian Writers' Union, Romania, 2007 VERSUs/m – Zoom 2007, Exigent Publishing House, Romania, 2007 Poésies de langue française. 144 poètes d'aujourd'hui autour du monde (French-language poets. 144 Today Poets from all over the World), Éditions Seghers, France, 2008 Poëzie van dichters uit de hele wereld. Poetry International 2008 – Anthology of the Poetry International Festival from Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2008 Dicisiete poetas franceses. Antología de poesía francesa contemporánea (Seventeen Contemporary French Poets. Anthology of French Contemporary Poetry), edited by Lionel Ray, Lancelot, Spain, 2008 Voix de la Méditerranée 2008 (Mediterranean Voices 2008), Éditions Clapas, France, 2008 Ailleurs 2008. Une année en poésie, Musée Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières, France, 2009 "Entre estas aguas : poetas del mundo latino 2009" (Between These Waters: Poets of the Latin World 2009), Monterrey, Mexico, 2010 Kijk, het heeft gewaaid, Poetry International, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas, 2009 "Europski glasnik" (The European Messenger), Hrvatsko drustvo pisaca, Zagreb, Croatia, 2010 Runoilevien naisten kaupunki (The City of Women Poets), Tammi, Helsinki, Finland, 2010 Cheyne, 30 ans, 30 voix (Cheyne, 30 years, 30 voices ), Cheyne, France, 2010 Poezia antiutopica (Anti-Utopian Poetry. An Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry), edited by Daniel D. Marin, Paralela 45, Romania, 2010 Couleurs femmes, Le Castor Astral & Le Nouvel Athanor, France, 2010 Anthologie de la poésie amoureuse, edited by Marc Alyn, Écriture, France, 2010 Zeitkunst. Internationale Literatur (International Literature), anthology, Verlagshaus J. Frank & Edition Polyphon, Germany, 2011 Les Très riches heures du Livre pauvre ("The Very Rich Hours of the Poor Book"), album, Éditions Gallimard, France, 2011 Anthologie de la poésie érotique féminine contemporaine de langue française ("Anthology of the Contemporary Female Erotic Poetry of French-language"), France, 2011 The International Days and Nights of Literature, Uniunea Scriitorilor din România, 2011 VERSschmuggel/réVERSible, CD, Wunderhorn & La passe du vent, Germany/France, 2012 Resistenze bruciate. Da Angela Marinescu a Linda Maria Baros (Burned Resistors. From Angela Marinescu to Linda Maria Baros), anthology, Edizioni Akkuaria, Italy, 2012 - 11 poets Alchimie des ailleurs, album, Musée Arthur Rimbaud & Silvana Editoriale, France/Italy, 2012 Pas d’ici, pas d’ailleurs (Not From Here, Not From Elsewhere), anthology, Éditions Voix d’encre, France, 2012 (Romanian Poets at Crossroads: Continuity and Rupture), anthology, Scrisul românesc, Romania, 2012 - 25 poets Liberté de créer, liberté de crier (Freedom to create, freedom to shout), Editions Henry, Paris, France, 2014 (Book of Poetry 2013), Editura Lumina, Republic of Moldavia, 2013 L’alveare d’oro dell’invisibile, Contact international, Romania, 2013
Translation scholarships "VERSschmuggel", Berlin (Germany), 2011 Vertalershuis (Translators' House), Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2007 Centre de Recontres Abbaye Neumünster (Luxembourg), 2006 The 3rd Poetry Translation Workshop The Golden Boat (Slovenia), 2005 Collège Européen des traducteurs littéraires de Seneffe (Belgium), 2003
International festivals Cork Spring Poetry Festival, Cork, Ireland, 2014 Acadie Rock, Moncton, New-Brunswick, Canada, 2013. Festival acadien de poésie, Caraquet, New-Brunswick, Canada, 2013. Voix de la Méditerranée, Lodève, France, 2013. Biennale de la poésie / Poètes du monde, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, 2013 , Chisinau & Soroca, Republic of Moldavia, 2013 Le Festival franco-anglais de poésie, France, 2013 Printemps des Poètes, France, 2013. Littératures Etrangères Festival, Audincourt, France, 2012. Novi Sad International Festival, Serbia, 2012 Voix de la Méditerranée, Lodève, France, 2012 Zeitkunst Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2011 International Festival Encuentro de Poetas del Mundo Latino, Mexico, 2011 Poesiefestival, Berlin, Germany, 2011 Voix de la Méditerranée, Lodève, France, 2011 The International Days and Nights of Literature, Neptun, Romania, 2011 Le Festival MidiMinuitPoésie, Nantes, France, 2010 La Biennale Internationale de Poésie, Liège, Belgium, 2010 Voix de la Méditerranée, Lodève, France, 2010