Gabriela Adamesteanu

Gabriela Adamesteanu is a Romanian novelist and journalist. She is the author of the novel Provizorat (Provisional), the short story collection Vara˘-prima˘-vara˘(Summer-Spring), and the novel Dimineat¸a pierduta˘ (Wasted Morning), which was translated by Patrick Camiller.

Adamesteanu presided over the Romanian PEN Center from 2004 to 2006, and served as the Editor in Chief of 22 from 1991 to 1995.


Articles by Gabriela Adamesteanu

Friday May 11

Provisional

But straight away she hunches her shoulders, shivering. What a preposterous comparison, unusable in a short story: the odour here is not one of rotting seaweed, but rather the sickly scent of damp plaster in a poorly decorated bedsit. And where the hell can she have thrown her bra? Her stockings? Why not crawl back under the quilt and snuggle?