The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes: Tatiana Țîbuleac & Monica Cure

Tatiana Țîbuleac presents My Mother Had Green Eyes, a novel that traces the strained and shifting relationship between a son and his mother over the course of a final summer. Written with precision and emotional restraint, the book moves between memory and present reflection, building a portrait of intimacy, distance, and reconciliation. Originally written in Romanian, the book is published in English by our friends at Deep Vellum. Țîbuleac, born in Chișinău and now based in Paris, brings to her fiction a background in journalism and a body of work that has received international recognition, including the European Union Prize for Literature. She will be joined by her translator, Monica Cure, whose English version of the novel has introduced the book to a wider readership. Cure, a Romanian-American writer and two-time Fulbright recipient, has translated extensively from Romanian and brings a careful attention to tone and voice in her work. Together, they will discuss the process of writing and translation, and the ways in which the novel’s language carries across contexts. Tatiana Țîbuleac is the award-winning Moldovan-Romanian author of The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes and The Glass Garden. She was born in Chișinău, Moldova, where she began her career as a journalist, working in print media and as a reporter and news anchor for PRO TV Chișinău, Moldova’s leading independent TV station. She also worked in Moldova for UNICEF before leaving for Paris, where she now lives. Her debut as a writer came in 2014 with a collection of short stories, followed by two novels that received multiple awards, including the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature for The Glass Garden. Her books have been translated into 17 languages. Monica Cure is a Romanian-American writer, translator, and dialogue specialist, as well as a two-time Fulbright grant award winner. Her poetry and translations have been published in journals internationally, and she’s the author of the book Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century (University of Minnesota Press). Her translation of The Censor’s Notebook by Liliana Corobca (Seven Stories Press) was awarded with the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She is currently based in Bucharest. Don’t miss out and sign up to our newsletter

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Tatiana Țîbuleac presents My Mother Had Green Eyes, a novel that traces the strained and shifting relationship between a son and his mother over the course of a final summer. Written with precision and emotional restraint, the book moves between memory and present reflection, building a portrait of intimacy, distance, and reconciliation. Originally written in Romanian, the book is published in English by our friends at Deep Vellum. Țîbuleac, born in Chișinău and now based in Paris, brings to her fiction a background in journalism and a body of work that has received international recognition, including the European Union Prize for Literature. She will be joined by her translator, Monica Cure, whose English version of the novel has introduced