The event 'My Love Story with Literature,' featuring writer Mircea Cartarescu and Spanish translator Marian Ochoa de Eribe, will take place at the Humanitas Cismigiu Bookshop in Bucharest on Tuesday.

Starting at 19:00, the two will engage in a dialogue moderated by journalist Ana-Maria Onisei, focusing on literature beyond all borders, literature in its many aspects, with its stories and secrets, as well as its power of seduction in an increasingly challenging world, according to a press release from the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR).

The international trajectory of the well-known Romanian writer, who enjoys wide recognition including in the Spanish-speaking world, intertwines with the prestigious career of translator Marian Ochoa de Eribe, laureate of the Romanian Cultural Institute Prize, together with Eta Hrubaru, for the best translation of a book from Romanian literature, for the Spanish translation of the volume 'Antologie de poezie' by Mircea Cartarescu. The prize was awarded at the International Literature and Translation Festival in Iasi (FILIT 2022).

Access to the event is free, subject to available seats.

Organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute, through the National Book Centre, and in partnership with Humanitas Publishing House, the dialogue is part of a series of events marking two decades of promoting Romanian literature abroad through the Translation and Publication Support (TPS) programme, established by the Romanian Cultural Institute in 2006, which has reached a portfolio of more than 1,000 titles, including volumes by Mircea Cartarescu.

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Mircea Cartarescu is one of the most important contemporary Romanian writers, the recipient of numerous international awards.

His novel 'Solenoid' was nominated for the International Booker Prize (2025).

His works have been translated into English, German, Italian, French, Swedish, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Danish, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Croatian, Serbian, Catalan and others.

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Translator, writer and professor Marian Ochoa de Eribe studied philology at the University of Deusto.

She arrived in Romania in 1993 after winning a competition for a Spanish language and literature lectureship in Eastern Europe at Ovidius University of Constanta, and has played an important role in promoting written Romanian culture in Spain.

She has translated into Spanish numerous volumes of Romanian literature by Mircea Cartarescu, Gabriela Adamesteanu, Radu Pavel Gheo, Tatiana Tibuleac, Mihail Sebastian and others.

In 2025 she was awarded the National Translation Prize of the Spanish Ministry of Culture for her translation of the novel 'Theodoros' by Mircea Cartarescu, whose works she has also translated including 'Levantul' (The Levant), 'Nostalgia' (Nostalgia), 'Orbitor' (Blinding), 'Solenoid' (Solenoid), as well as the poetry anthology 'Poesia esencial.' AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Daniel Popescu; EN - writing by: Adina Panaitescu)