Solenoid
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2024 | Winner |
About This Book
Mircea Cărtărescu's vast surrealist novel, translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter, follows a failed writer living in Bucharest's crumbling streets who discovers a mysterious artifact beneath his house. Winner of the Dublin Literary Award.
About the Author
Mircea Cărtărescu is Romania's most celebrated living writer, widely regarded as one of the great novelists of contemporary European literature and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Bucharest, Romania, he studied Romanian philology at the University of Bucharest, where he later taught literature for many years. His magnum opus is the Orbitor trilogy (1996–2007), and his major standalone novel Solenoid (2015, translated into English by Sean Cotter in 2022) won the Dublin Literary Award in 2024. Read more →
