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iustin panta
Panta (1964-2001) was born and educated in Bucharest, graduating from the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering in 1989. He lived and worked as an engineer in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu. The
December 1989 revolution in Romania made it possible for him to pursue literature, and he served as
editor in chief of the cultural journal Euphorion, which he made into one of the nation's most
lively and free-spirited contemporary periodicals. During the next decade Panta produced five
collections of largely prose poetry, earning him a reputation as one of the most important
writers of the 1990s. His debut volume, Blownup Objects (1991), won a Romanian Writers' Union
prize and his 1995 volume, The Family and the Indifferent Equilibrium received a number of
major awards. He also co-authored a poetic narrative with Mircea Ivanescu: The Limits of Power or the
Bribing the Witnesses, a Russian Novel (1994). A book of essays, Handbook of Thoughts That
Console / Handbook of Thoughts That Disturb (2000) turned out to be his last. Panta died in a car
crash at the end of September 2001.
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published by TSP:
Memory Glyphs
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