Marius Ianuş

Marius–Christian Drăjan
Pseudonym: Marius Ianuş
(Pron.: Yanush - en; Yanouche - fr, Ianuş is his mother's name)

Born in Braşov, Romania, 24th of December 1975.

1. In present he write a book about Alexandru Monciu-Sudinski, a Romanian dissident writer of the ’70ies who has lived, just happening, in the flat where Marius Ianus lives now:
www.rhiz.eu/artefact-32418-en.html

“The situation is strange to think that our families were nearly the same problems with the Romanian dictatorship: his parents had escaped the Soviets (who preyed on the people from the Republic of Moldova to put them in the Union Soviet), my father made six months in prison for political reasons (defamation of national symbols). I was too fallowed by the Romanian Police in the last decade of the past century, for the same reason, for my poem Manifest Anarchist: www.rhiz.eu/article-34136-en.html (English version).
The story of Alexandru Monciu-Sudinski is the story of a true dissident and a great writer destroyed by the Romanian security. It has been marginalized and forced to leave the country, his works were burned, and his name has disappeared from the consciousness of people.
I consider my book very important not only for me but for all readers who want to know the reality on the evil regime that has led Romania before 1989, and even today leads in a way that country.”
Marius Ianus

2. He has a process with the Romanian Cultural Institute and two thieves from his enterprise in Chişinău:
www.rhiz.eu/article-45291-en.html

Literary activity:

Theoretician of a new Romanian literary current called ”fracturism”.
Leader of the literary cenacle "Knots and Signs" founded by professor Constantin Giurgincă, at the Military High school Dimitrie Cantemir, Breaza (1991-1994).
Member of the literary cercle leaded by Mircea Cărtărescu (1998-1999).
He followed the creative writing course taught by Mircea Cărtărescu at the Letters Faculty from the University of Bucharest (1999).
He initiated the literary cenacle Letters 2000, which he leaded for two years, and also the literary magazine Fracturi, dedicated to the young literature where some of today’s most important poets and prose writers have published.
He organized "The Art and Literature Evenings Fracturi" in Club A, Bucharest (2001-2002).
He participated at the literary cenacle of the Romanian Literature Museum.
He published in magazines like: The Abode / Vatra, Literary Romania / România literară, Fractures / Fracturi, The Word / Cuvântul, Astra, Art Panorama, My pen / Pana mea, State of emergency / Stare de urgenţă.
For “Romania”, the second part of the “Anarchist Manifesto” he hade some big problems with the Romanian Police and the stuff of University of Bucharest.

Books:

He had his first appearance in the collective volume "Ferestre ’98" (Publishing House Aristarc, Oneşti, 1998) - the anthology of the literary cenacle Letters, directed by Mircea Cărtărescu.
He participated at the experimental book "40238 Tescani", Publishing House Image, Bucureşti, 2000 (with Mircea Cărtărescu, Ioana Nicolaie, Angelo Mitchievici, Doina Ioanid, Ioan Godeanu, Domnica Drumea, Cecilia Ştefănescu and Florin Iaru).

His made his first appearance in the individual volume with "Anarchist manifesto and other fractures / Manifest anarhist şi alte fracturi" (Publishing House Vinea, 2000).

He also published the volumes:

"toilet paper / hîrtie igienică",
(in a censorship regime, Publishing House etc, 1999)
"The bear from the bin – a movie featuring myself / Ursul din containăr - un film cu mine"
(Publishing House Vinea, 2002),
"Toilet paper and the First Poems / Hîrtie igienică precedată de primele poezii"
(Publishing House Vinea, 2004)
"Dance(-ing) Ianuş / Dansează Ianuş, personal anthology" (Publishing House Vinea, 2006)
"The smurfs out of the factory / Ştrumfii afară din fabrică" (Publishing House. Cartea Românească, 2007).

Awards:

Nomination at the Writers Union Award for Debut (2000).
The prize of My pen magazine.
The prize of The Young Writers Colloquium, Cluj (2007).
The prize of The Word magazine for poetry , 2007.
The prize of Tiuk! magazine for poetry, 2007.
He created, with Cezar Nicolescu, the literary blog Hyperliteratura.

Critical references:

“In its entireness, the Anarchist Manifesto is a mutilated book of a mutilated man who lives in a mutilated part of the history, which he tries in vain to redeem. This poetry, one of the best written today, is born from this failure.”

Mircea Cărtărescu - România literară nr. 50 din 20 decembrie 2000

“The difference between him and his colleagues is like the one between drugs and aspirin”

Dan Silviu Boerescu, Art Panorama

“A good and known poet”

Alexandru Matei – The Day (Ziua) Nr. 2630 de luni, 10 februarie 2003

“The bear from the dustbin is a book of true and original poetry. A poetry which suggests a sickness of existence and a frame of mind ,as I realized, specific to those children of the revolution in this impure world of our transition .”

Eugen Simion – The Day (Ziua) No. 3287 Saturday, 2 April 2005,

Critical notes 2005 – number dedicated to the fracturist current

“The best poet of our young generation”

Daniel Cristea-Enache – Opening concert

“Marius Ianuş can be considered, beyound any doubts, a revelation of our last years of poetry.”

Iulian Boldea – The Word (Cuvântul)

“He was and he will remain the head of the 2000 promotion and he should be respected, if not by the dusty literature teachers, then at least by the authors of his generation, for whom Ianuş has clear a few hectares of poetry.”

Octavian Soviany – The Tribune (Tribuna), no. 127 (15-31 December 2007)

Professional:

Marius–Christian Drăjan
(Pseudonym: Marius Ianuş)

Born in Braşov, Romania,
24th of December 1975.

Professional activity:

Baker (to his father business)
(1995-1996)
Bread seller (1996-1997)
Editor at the Playboy magazine
(1998-1999).
Editor at the cultural department of Daily Event newspaper - Evenimentul zilei (2000-2001).
Director and DTP of the literary magazine Fracturi (2002-2003).
Processing engineer (Senior DTP) at The Truth newspaper - Adevărul (2004-2005) and then at the The Thought - Gândul (2005-2007) newspaper.
At present, he is chef-editor and DTP of the literary magazine State of emergency (Stare de urgenţă).

Studies:

Military High school “Dimitrie Cantemir”, in Breaza.
Studies unfinished of Romanian and French at the Faculty of Letters of University Bucharest 1998-2002.

Personal skills and competences:

DTP: InDesign, Quark, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Word.

Mother tongue(s) Romanian

Other language(s) French, English
.
European level
French C1 C1 B2 B2 B2
English B1 B1 B1 A2 A2

His wife, Domnica Drumea (www.rhiz.eu/person-34399-en.html), is also a well know Romanian writer: www.upm.ro/facultati_departamente/stiinte_litere/conferinte/situl_integrare_europeana/Lucrari/Buda.pdf .

They have a five years daughter, Zvera-Maria.

Some of his poems were used in the theatre spectacle "Stop the Tempo".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlikQu41hMA

Some of his poems were translated in English, Russian, Polish ( lampa.art.pl/sklep/index.php?p133,lampa-1-46-47-2008 ) and Swedish ( www.rkis.se/images/pagini_a/fisiere2/118_210_Ianus%20Marius.pdf).

He works now as well on a very ambitious NGO for writers project.

The Poetry. The Power.
Episode: Me and Sorin Despot at Alba Iulia, Romania. A Razvan Tupa's movie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ70YZl5N4Q