Christian Tămaș (born 13 November 1964) is a

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n writer, translator, essayist, arts and humanities researcher.

Biography

Tămaș was born in the commune of Letca, in

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, northern

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, on 13 November 1964. He graduated in Arabic language and literature from the

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, in 1988. Later, in 2006, he obtained a master's degree in adult education at the

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and, in 2007, he earned a Doctorate in philosophy at the same university, with the thesis "Communication Strategies in the

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". His published works include novels, short stories, essays, literary criticism articles, scientific books and articles in the field of humanities, as well as translations from Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Catalan, French, English, Irish and Portuguese. Since 2008, besides his research activity conducted at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, he delivers courses of Arabic language and civilization at the same university and at the Arab Cultural Center of Iași.Crăciun 2011, p. 513.

List of published works and translations (selective)

* * * ''Trezirea la nemurire'', Ars Longa, 1997 * ''Strategii de comunicare in Coran'', Ars Longa, 2007 * Seán Ó Curraoin, ''Beairtle'' (translation from Irish), Ars Longa, 2008 * Gaetano Mollo, ''Dincolo de angoasă: educația etico-religoasă la Sören Kierkegaard'' (translation from Italian), Ars Longa, 2000 * Dairena Ní Chinnéide, ''Luptătoarea și alte poezii'' (translation from Irish), Ars Longa, 2008 * ''Crize contemporane: disoluția sacrului'', Ars Longa, 2003 * ''Crize contemporane: ofensiva islamului'', Ars Longa, 2004 * ''The White Silence'', Ars Longa, 2007 * Ignațiu de Loyola (

Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola ( ; ; ; ; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the S ...

), ''Exerciții spirituale'' (translation from Spanish), Polirom, 1996 * Tadeusz Rostworowski, ''Din gindirea filosofică a papei Ioan Paul al II-lea'' (translation from Italian), Ars Longa, 1995 * ''El. Avatarurile unui articol hotărât'', Ars Longa, 2012 * Carles Miralles, ''Dulci și aspre'' (translation from Catalan), Ars Longa, 2008

Affiliations

* Romanian Association for Religious Studies * Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies * Réseau Francophone de Sociolinguistique (France) * Center of Arabic Studies,

Writers' Union of Romania The Writers' Union of Romania (), founded in March 1949, is a professional association of writers in Romania. It also has a subsidiary in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. The Writers' Union of Romania was created by the communist regime by takin ...

* Société Internationale des Traducteurs d'Arabe (France) * Maison Naaman pour la Culture (Lebanon) * Casa del Poeta Peruano (Perú)

Awards

*Prix Naaman (Lebanon), 2007 *Writers' Union of Romania Prize, 2008 *Gold Medal for Intellectual Excellence (Perú), 2012

Notes

References

*Busuioc, Nicolae (1997). ''Scriitori ieșeni contemporani. Dicționar biobibliografic''. Iaşi: Junimea. *Busuioc, Nicolae (2002). ''Scriitori şi publiciști ieșeni contemporani''. Iași: Vasiliana 98. *Crăciun, Boris (2010). ''1500 scriitori români, clasici și contemporani''. Iași: La porțile Orientului. *Crăciun, Boris (2011). ''Dicționarul scriitorilor români de azi''. Iași: La porțile Orientului. *Mir i Oliveras, Xavier
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', Visat. La revista digital de literatura i traducció del PEN Català. Barcelona, April 2013. *Rhea, Cristina (2013). ''Românii secolului XXI''. București: Virtual.

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