Mihai Eminescu -The Legend of the Evening Star & Selected Poems: Translations by Adrian G. Sahlean

Sahlean, Adrian George: - Adrian George Sahlean. 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. 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 (2004) (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. He lives outside Boston, MA.