Romanians rightly consider Mihai Eminescu (1850 -1889) their National Poet while he is also Europe's last great Romantic. Now, for the first time, there is a volume of poems and prose translated into English that makes his work available to a much wider audience. No previous book of translations comes close to Mihai Eminescu -- The Legend of the Evening Star and Other Poems. For those with philological inclination, the mirror display of texts in the bilingual volume also allows for instant comparison of the original with the English version.
Translator Adrian G. Sahlean is viewed as the poet's premier voice in English, and his rendition of Eminescu's masterpiece "Legenda Luceafarului" (The Legend of the Evening Star) was twice staged off-Broadway in 2005 and 2008.
This is an updated and expanded edition of a book that has won numerous awards since 2000, with Sahlean establishing himself over that time as an elite literary translator in many genres. If the book is to move beyond the awareness of Romanians into the English-speaking world it will need the support of individuals. The book can be purchased through the Amazon system (click the book cover on the left for link)