Radu Vancu

Radu Vancu (Sibiu, Romania, 1978) is a Romanian poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. Between 2019 and 2023, he has served as president of PEN Romania. He works as a professor at the Faculty of Letters and Arts at the „Lucian Blaga” University from Sibiu. He is editor-in-chief of the Transilvania magazine and an editor of the Poesis Internațional magazine. He was the national editor of the Romanian section for the Poetry International website.

Starting with 2002, he has published 9 books of poems; his poetry was translated in circa 20 languages, either in anthologies/magazines or as individual books. He has also published two novels, Transparența (2018) and Paradis (2025), and 3 volumes of a diary (2017, 2021, 2024). He has also published 2 children novellas and a book collecting his social & political articles. His scholarly publications include 2 book-length essays on Mihai Eminescu and Mircea Ivănescu, as well as a book on the anti-humanist poetics of modernity. He has coordinated several anthologies of modern and contemporary Romanian poetry, either alone or in collaboration with Mircea Ivănescu, Claudiu Komartin, or Marius Chivu.

He has translated novels and poetry, mainly from the works of Walt Whitman and John Berryman; he is also the translator of the on-going four-volume Ezra Pound edition coordinated by H.-R. Patapievici.
He is the president of the International Poetry Festival in Sibiu Poets in Transylvania (2013-ongoing).