Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan
One quiet day when her mother was away from home, Carmen Bugan's father put on his best suit and drove into Bucharest to stage a one-man protest against Ceausescu. He had been typing pamphlets on an illegal typewriter and burying it in the garden each morning under his daughter's bedroom window. This is the story of what happened to Carmen and her family, isolated and under surveillance in their beloved village home. It is an intimate piece of our recent history, the testimony of an extraordinary childhood left abruptly behind. Above all, it is a luminous, compassionate, and unflinchingly honest book about the price of courage, the pain of exile, and the power of memory.
Carmen Bugan, George Orwell Prize Fellow, is an award-winning author of ten books that include memoir, essays, and criticism. Her work has been translated into several languages, gathered international praise, and has been widely anthologized. Lilies from America: New and Selected Poems, won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, and her book of essays on politics and poetics, Poetry and the Language of Oppression was named "an essential book for writers" by Poets and Writers magazine. She wrote a highly praised monograph on Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. Her most recent collections of poems are Time Being and Tristia. Carmen's memoir, Burying the Typewriter, won the Bread Loaf Nonfiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and has been featured on NPR, ABC, PRI and the BBC. Carmen was educated at the University of Michigan (BA), Lancaster University, UK (MFA), and Oxford University, UK (PhD). She received fellowships from Wolfson College Oxford, Arts Council England, and the Hawthornden Retreat for Writers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447210832 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447210832 |
| Title | Burying the Typewriter |
| Author | Carmen Bugan |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2012-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Orwell Prize 2013 (UK) |
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