György Vigdorovits

I was born in Cluj Napoca on 20 May 1963. I graduated from George Baritiu High School in Cluj Napoca in 1981. I did my military TR service in 1981-1982.

Between 1982-1987 I graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (MA) of the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj-Napoca.

Between 1987-1994 I worked as an engineer at Metalica Company in Oradea. In 1990, I made my debut as a publicist in the weekly Direct in Oradea, under the auspices of Bihor Daily.

Between 1990-1994 I published poems and essays in prominent Romanian literary and public magazines Familia, Steaua, Tribuna, Vatra, Poezia, Convorbiri Literare, Pro Saeculum, Cetatea Culturală, Arcada, Sisif etc.

During the same period I published political and attitudinal articles in various daily newspapers: Direct, Jurnalul Bihorean, Noua Gazeta de Vest in Oradea and Jurnalul Transilvan and Foaia Transilvana in Cluj Napoca.

1994-1999 – Israel, where I worked as an electrical and development engineer at Rada Electronic Industries Beit Shean and Israel Electric Co. Haifa.

1995-1999 – Reserve officer in the Israeli army. Here I wrote political articles and poems in Romanian language newspapers and magazines.

2000-present – Hungary, Budapest.

2000-2002 – Jolidon – Director of the Hungarian branch of a French Romanian company.

2003-2004 – Director of the Hungarian branch of Argos – Romanian company.

2004-present – entrepreneur, owner and manager of his own Hungarian and Romanian companies.

2000-2004 – reports for Antena Cluj TV station and Romantic Radio Cluj from Budapest.

From 2000 to now – I continued publishing poems and essays in the same Romanian magazines as in the 90s and more recently in Nord Literar, Caiete Silvane, Vatra Veche, Parnas 21, Avalon, radio Vocativ, TVR3 and TVR Cluj.

Mention should be made of Literatura de Azi and Baabel where I have been publishing poems and articles since 2020.

2000-present – my poems have been published in Hungarian translation in Korunk in 2010, issue 11 and in the Vintage – Twentieth Century Romanian Poetry, translated by Attila Szlafkay, 2015, Napkút Publishing House, courtesy of the National Cultural Fund.

National Poetry Awards in Romania

• Mihai Eminescu in Botoșani in 1991,
• Ion Minulescu in Slatina in 1992
• Panait Cerna in Tulcea in 1992

National Poetry Awards in Israel

• Ianculovici Cultural Foundation Award for publication in Romanian, Haifa, Israel 1998.

National Poetry Awards in Italy

• Festival Internazionale Dei Due Mondi – Gabriela Verban – Castellammare dij
• Stabia – Romanian language poetry section – Quarto classificato – ex aequo, in 2022.

Published books

• collection of articles – Geografie Imposibilă – Impossible geography , Edit.Clusium 2000.
• poems – Ancore de sânge – Blood anchors, Edit. Clusium 2000.
• poems – Arhitectura singurătății – The architecture of solitude, – Edit. Clusium 2003.
• poems – Atentat împotriva eului – Assassination against my ego, Edit. Clusium 2006.
• collection of articles – Voluptatea marginalitàtii – The enjoyment of marginality, Edit. Clusium 2009.
• poems – Ultimul pariu existențial – The last vital bet, Edit. Clusium 2013.
• essays – Pastile Metafizice – Metaphysical pills , Edit.Ecou Transilvan 2021.
• poems – Cu masca tăcerii pe coarne – Wearing the mask of silence on our horns, Edit. Colorama 2021.
• poems – Versantology – Poet sub acoperire – Poet in disguise – 2000-2021, Edit. Avalon 2022.
• poems in hungarian – Retreat to context – Edit. Holnap Books, 2023.
• poems – Rămân o rană deschisă – I remain an open wound – Edit. Colorama 2023.
• aphorisms and thoughts – Petarde existențiale – Living word grenades – Edit. Minela 2023.
• poems – volum colectiv Cercul Poeților – collected volume, Cercul Poetilor, Versantology vol.4, Edit.Colorama 2020.
• essays – volum colectiv Ecoul Singurătății – The echo of loneliness, collected volume, Edit. Ecou Transilvan 2020.
• poems – volum colectiv Antologia de poezie a Cenaclului de la Roma, collected volume – The Cenaclu’s poetry anthology from Rome – Edit. Minela 2022.