User:Sahlean

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Born in 1951 in Romania and naturalized in USA in 1985, ADRIAN GEORGE SAHLEAN holds advanced degrees in both philology and psychoanalysis, and has authored several volumes of poetry translations into English as well as essays on literary translation. His meter-and-rhyme renditions of 19th c. Romanian ‘national’ poet Mihai Eminescu—UNESCO Year-2000-Poet-Of-The-Year—brought him international recognition and were awarded the 'Eminescu Gold Medal’ (2000) and the ‘LiterArt XXI’ Grand Prize of the Int. Assoc. of Romanian Writers and Artists (2002). In 2002, the Romanian Cultural Foundation sponsored a CD featuring Prince Radu von Hohenzollern-Veringen reading Mr. Sahlean's translation of Luceafarul (‘The Legend of the Evening Star’) with an orchestral setting of George Enescu’s ‘Poema Romana’. In 2005, 'The Evening Star' was performed off-Broadway at the Acorn Theatre as a theatrical-choreographical production; in 2006, his Eminescu translations were published as a double CD & book project - 'Eminescu-Eternal Longing, Impossible Love' - narrated by Jeremy Geidt of the American Repertory Theatre. Mr. Sahlean is the co-founder (2004) and president of Global Arts Inc. (www.globalartsnpo.org), a non-profit organization actively promoting Romanian literature, music and art to the US. He is a member of the Romanian Writer's Union, the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts, the Romanian Union of Physician Writers and Journalists, and the US Pro Tennis Association.