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The MOP Talks: Tatiana Tîbuleac
SERIES OF TALKS WITH FEMALE WRITERS FEATURING TATIANA TÎBULEAC
The MOP Foundation is launching a new initiative as part of The MOP Talks, its series of events open to the public featuring leading figures from contemporary culture and the creative arts. This series of conversations with female writers will bring Tatiana Ţîbuleac, Ottessa Moshfegh and Lionel Shriver to A Coruña, with cultural journalist Andrea Aguilar acting as moderator.
Tatiana Ţîbuleac will be the guest of honour at the first event on Monday 6 April at 7.00 pm. Ţîbuleac is the author of the publishing phenomenon The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes, published in Spain in 2019.
Tickets available from 30 March at 11.00 am.
TATIANA TÎBULEAC
Tatiana Ţîbuleac was born in 1978 in Chișinău, Moldova. The only child of a journalist and a newspaper proofreader, she started working with various media outlets as a translator, proofreader and reporter whilst studying Journalism and Communication at the State University of Moldova. She made her name in 1995 when she launched the column ‘True Stories’ in the newspaper Flux, one of the most important Romanian-language dailies.
In 1999, she started working in television as one of the lead reporters on Pro TV’s news programme, where she established herself as a social affairs journalist. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Modern Fables, was published in 2014. The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes (2016; Impedimenta, 2019), her first novel, made a huge impression on critics and readers alike and was hailed as a genuine literary phenomenon in Romania. It also received several awards, notably the prize awarded by the Moldovan Writers’ Union, the Romanian Observator Cultural Prize and the Lyceum Prize. This work has been translated into numerous languages, and the Spanish translation, by Marian Ochoa de Eribe, became one of the books of the year and won awards such as the 2019 Cálamo Book of the Year, as well as the 2020 Las Librerías Recomiendan Prize, awarded by CEGAL.
In October 2019, it was a finalist for the Madrid Bookshops’ Book of the Year. In 2018, Ţîbuleac published her second novel, The Glass Garden (Impedimenta, 2021), winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2019, which has also been translated into several languages. In September 2026, Impedimenta will publish her third novel, The Knife Against the Stone. Tatiana Ţîbuleac continues to be active in the world of audiovisual media.
ANDREA AGUILAR
Andrea Aguilar (Madrid, 1978), a cultural journalist with a degree in History and Politics from the University of Kent, was a fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2007 and lived in New York until 2014. She is an editor at the newspaper El País, where she has been writing for over two decades, mainly on literary and cultural topics. Her work, with a particular focus on interviews with authors, has been published in magazines such as The Paris Review, Letras Libres and The Reading Room Journal. She co-edited the book Upstairs at The Strand. Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore (WW Norton, 2016).