Dumitru Radu Popa

Dumitru Radu Popa

Dumitru Radu Popa (born October 26, 1949) is a Romanian-born writer, essayist, translator and literary critic who lives in the USA.

In the USA

In 1985, he defected to the USA, asking for political asylum.^[1]

• New York University Law School Library, 1986 – present;
• Director of Law Library/Assistant Dean for Library Services, February 2005 to present
• Acting Director, July 2003 to January 2005.
• Associate Director for Research & Online Services, September 1996 — June 2003
• Acting Co-Director for the Law Library, January — June 1994
• Associate Director for Global Library Services, September 1994 — August 1996
• International Law Librarian/Head of Special Collections, January 1993 — August 1994
• International and Foreign Law Reference Librarian, September — December 1992
• Reference Librarian for Special Collections, September 1989—November 1992 International and Foreign Law Specialist, September 1988 — August 1989 Library Assistant, July 1986 August 1988

In Romania

• Editorial Director, Tribuna Romaniei (monthly cultural publication in Bucharest, Romania) (October 1974 – October 1985)
• Editor, Albatross Publishing House (Bucharest, Romania) (October 1972—September 1974)

Education

• Master of Arts (excellence degree in Romance Languages and Literature, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1972)
• Master of Science (Library and Information Science with emphasis on Reference in Foreign and International Law), Columbia University, New York, 1989.

Books

• Accidental Tourist on the New Frontier: An Introductory Guide to Global Legal Research (with Jeanne Rehberg). Littleton, CO: Rotman & Co., 1998.
• Five collections of short stories and two novels (in Romanian) (1982–2001)
• One critical essay about the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (in Romanian) (1980).
• Bas-relief with Heroes. Memphis, TN: Memphis University Press, 1988 (Introductory study to Romanian poetry in English version).
• Poetry – A Scar on the Wall of Air. Introductory study and translations (with Thomas C. Carslon) in Little Bones in Winter, Selected Poems of Virgil Mazilescu. Bucharest: Romanian Cultural Foundation, 1996.
• Ut Musica Poesis. Introductory essay in Selected Poems of Mihai Eminescu. Bucharest: Univers Publishing House, 2000.
• La Naissance: structures symboliques. In Religion, Fiction, and History. Essays in Memory of loan Petru Ed. by Sorin Antohi. Bucharest: Nemira, 2001.

• Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Aventura Constiintei (1980)
• Călătoria (1982)
• Fisura (Cartea Românescă, 1985)
• Little Bones in Winter (1996)
• Panic Syndrome! (Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor, 1997)
• Inchide ochii (1998)
• Traversând Washington Square (1999)
• La Revoluţia Română (2000)
• Sabrina şi alte suspiciuni (2004)
• Skenzemon! (2005)
• Lady V. (2006)
• Lady V. and Other Short Stories ([2007)]

Memberships and awards

• Member of the American Association of Law Libraries (since 1989) Member of the American Society of International Law (since 1989)
• Member of the International Association of Law Libraries (since 1989) Member of the Romanian Writers Association (since 1990)
• Executive Vice-President of ACORD (NGO for the advancement of the rule of law in Romania, 1997–2001)
• National Award for Literature (for Panic Syndrome! short stories,Bucharest: Univers, 1997)
• Order of Merit in the rank of Officer (for the advancement of the rule of law in Romania and interface with the American culture, 2000).

References