In recent years, his work has been appearing in Catalan as well, with titles like Per què estimem les dones (Lleonard Muntaner, 2016 in English, Why We Love Women), his powerful work Solenoide (Edicions del Periscopi, 2017), and L’ala esquerra (Edicions del Periscopi, 2018), the first part of the Blinding trilogy, as well as the collection of poems Res. The books El ala izquierda and El cuerpo, have recently been published as the first and second parts of the trilogy Cegador (in English, Blinding). Since 2010, Impedimenta has published in Spanish some of his outstanding works, among them El ruletista (2010), Lulu (2011), Nostalgia (2012 published in English with this title), El Levante (2015 in English, The Levant), El ojo castaño de nuestro amor (2015), and Solenoide (2017: in English, Solenoid). Known for his powerful prose and attentive gaze, his work acutely portrays the entropy in contemporary European life and the yearning for empathy at the heart of the human condition. He has perhaps received more literary awards than any other Romanian writer: practically all of the country’s prizes as well as international prizes, including the 2012 Berlin Prize for Literature, the 2016 Gregor von Rezzori Award, and the 2018 Formentor Prize. Back in 2013, I was blown away by Romanian writer Mircea Crtrescu’s novel Blinding (translated by Sean Cotter), the first part in an ambitious trilogy exploring the author’s life and family while taking a distinctly surrealist look at his country and society.
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