Irmi Horn
THE BLOOD COUNTESS. Irmi Horn reads from “The Blood Countess” by Andrei Codrescu. The novel is based on the legend of Countess Elizabeth Báthory.
Andrei Codrescu (born Andrei Perlmutter on December 20, 1946, in Sibiu, Romania) is a Romanian-American writer.
Andrei Perlmutter is the son of an engineer and a photographer. As a teenager, he made his first attempts at writing in Romanian and published them under the name Andrei Steiu to conceal his Jewish heritage. In 1965, he and his mother received exit visas from the Romanian state to Italy after the State of Israel paid a ransom for the emigration of a large group of Romanian Jews. In 1966, they arrived in the USA, settling in Detroit, where he met the writer John Sinclair. After another year, he moved to New York, joined the poets Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, and Anne Waldman on the Lower East Side, and published his first poems in English under the name Andrei Codrescu. In 1970, he won the Big Table Poetry Award with his collection “License to Carry a Gun.” He lived in California for the next seven years, then in Baltimore, where he taught at Johns Hopkins University. He became an American citizen in 1981.
Codrescu became a professor of English at Louisiana State University in 1984 and retired in 2009. He published a book almost every year and wrote poems, short stories, essays, and reviews for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, and the Paris Review. From 1983 to 2016, Codrescu was a commentator on National Public Radio’s news program “All Things Considered.” In 1995, he won a Peabody Award for the road movie “Road Scholar.” He also received the Pushcart Prize twice. His book “So Recently a World: Selected Poems, 1968–2016” was nominated for the National Book Award.
In 1989, he went to Bucharest for National Public Radio and ABC News Nightline to report on the Romanian Revolution. Since then, he has also written in Romanian again. He co-wrote an epic poem with Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu, for which they received a Romanian Radio Award in 2008. Several of his books have now been translated into Romanian. In 2002, Codrescu filmed the story “My Old Haunts” for PBS Frontline World in Romania. He has translated poems by Lucian Blaga into English.
In 2002, Codrescu filmed the story “My Old Haunts” for PBS Frontline World in Romania. Codrescu was first married to Aurelia Munteanu, has two children from his second marriage to Alice Henderson, and is currently married to fiction editor Laura Cole Rosenthal.
We will compare the quality of the novel with the film adaptation.
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