The Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation 2005 has been won by The Bridge, a book of poems by Marin Sorescu, everybody's favourite Romanian poet (well, mine anyway), translated by Adam J Sorkin and Lidia Vianu. Sorescu died at the end of 1996. Here are a couple of his last poems.
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