LOOREN A LAVIGNY FELLOWSHIP
Translation project La boutique obscure by George Perec (French > Romanian)
Born in 1986, Ovidiu Komlod is a poet and literary translator. After defending his thesis in comparative literature at the "Babeș-Bolyai" University in Cluj, he worked as an editor, literary consultant and bookseller. He has translated, among others French writers, Yannick Haenel, Maylis de Kerangal, Thomas Gunzig, Caroline Lamarche, Philippe Besson, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Christelle Dabos, Rémi Brague, Léon d'Hervey de Saint-Denys, Hubert Reeves and some fragments from English and Italian. He has received several grants and residencies, in France, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland.