Born in Romania, and a U.S. citizen since 1991, Mr. Sahlean holds Master's Degrees in English & Spanish philology (Bucharest, 1975), psychoanalysis (Boston, 1995) and is a certified clinical psychoanalyst (2002). Mr. Sahlean is the author of literary translations of poetry, short stories, memoirs, plays, fairytales and children’s books.
His meter-and-rhyme English renditions from the Romanian national poet Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) earned several international awards, including the UNESCO Gold Prize (2000), the LiterArt XXI Grand Prize (2002), and the National Center for Eminescu Studies Award for Translation (2016). In 2015, the volume of essays on literary translation Migalosul Cronogfag (The Painstaking Chronophage), won the Book-of-the-Year award from the Romanian Writers Union.
Books translated by Adrian G Sahlean from Romanian into English sponsored by GLOBAL ARTS efforts. See the author's page on Amazon by clicking here.
The theatrical production of The Legend of the Evening Star, based on his translation of Eminescu’s masterpiece Luceafărul, was twice staged off-Broadway in 2005 and 2008. Over the last decade, Mr. Sahlean performed poetry recitals of his translations in several U.S. and Canadian cities. Mr. Sahlean is the co-founder and president of Global Arts (2005) (www.globalartsnpo.org), a non-profit organization promoting Romanian literature, art, and music to the American public. He is a member of the Romanian Writers Union, American Literary Translators Association, American Romanian Academy, and Society of Modern Psychoanalysts.
Past and present activities include Radio-TV professional children's choir; founder of an a-cappella group; national basketball league player; college tennis player; a part-time actor with repertory company; second prize at national classical guitar festival; Boston marathon; US professional tennis coach; bel-canto singing. He lives outside Boston, MA.
William C. Cross graduated from The College of Wooster in 1968. Since then he has become a published poet and photographer, and has given many public poetry readings and had solo shows of his photographs. He coordinated the poetry reading series at the 100 Flowers Book Store in Cambridge, Ma. He sang for 11 seasons in the chorus of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society.
He is a certified Polarity Therapy Practitioner, licensed massage therapist and graduate of the J. Victor Scherer Academy in Santa Fe, N.M., and has studied nutrition at the graduate level. He has conducted workshops and presentations on acupressure, exercise, and nutrition. His current focus is the presentation of Mihai Eminescu to the American poetry audience through the meter-and-rhyme translations by Adrian G. Sahlean and the programs of Global Arts.