Domnica Radulescu

Domnica Radulescu Portrait

Domnica Rădulescu is a Romanian-born American writer of novels, plays and books of literary criticism. She is the author of three novels: Train to Trieste (Knopf, 2008), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld, 2010) and Country of Red Azaleas (Twelve, Hachette Group, 2016). She has also authored numerous books and edited collections on theater, east European literature, exile literature, representations of women and humor.

Two of her plays, The Town with Very Nice People (2013) and Exile Is My Home (2014) were finalists for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, Exile Is My Home was presented as a staged reading at TheaterLab off Broadway and was staged as a full production at the Theater for the New City in April 2016. She is a Fulbright scholar and the founding director of the National Symposium of Theater in Academe.

Works

Fiction

• Country of Red Azaleas, ISBN 978-1455590421 a novel. New York: Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Group, April 2016.
• Black Sea Twilight, ISBN 978-0552774758 a novel, London, UK, Toronto, Canada: Doubleday Publishing, April 2010 & August 2011.
• Train to Trieste ISBN 978-0307388360, a novel. New York: Knopf, 2008 and 2009; London, UK: Transworld 2008 and 2009, and twelve international editions: Editions Belfond in France, Hoffmann und Campe in Germany, Frassinelli in Italy, Zamora Publishing in Israel, Editorial Elephas in Mexico among them. Train to Trieste received rave reviews in the United States and abroad.

Plays

• Dos obras dramáticas. ISBN 978-84-16546-74-9, a collection of two plays, Exile is my home - a sci-fi Immigrant fairytale and The Virgins of Seville - an immigrant fantasy, in a bilingual Spanish English edition. Estudio introductorio y traducción de Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu.
• Exile is my Home : Four plays by Domnica Radulescu. ISBN 978-1716857324. Scholar Christine Evans says 'Radulescu’s plays are carnivalesque, grotesquely comic, savagely sad and breath-taking in their imaginative scope. They bound over oceans, continents, planets, stifling small-town faculty meetings and the terrifying liminal spaces of the US border.' A NoPassport Press publication.
• Madame Monde/Madam World: One-Act and Short Plays. ISBN 978-1387430307, a collection that features a wide range of plays that focus on nature, earth, madness, magic, and environmental destruction from a feminist viewpoint. This is a NoPassport Press publication project.

Memoir

• Dream in a Suitcase. ISBN 978-1-64979-540-3 is the first English language memoir of a female Romanian-American survivor of a communist dictatorship behind the Iron Curtain. Published by Austin Macauley (December 2021).

Anthology

• Voices on the Move: ISBN 978-1-910146-46-0, is an Anthology by and about refugees. Edited by Domnica Radulescu and Roxana Cazana. A multi-genre collection of diverse artistic works ranging from poetry to creative fiction and non-fiction, from drama to photography inspired by the multilayered experience of displacement. Solis Press, 2020.
• Immigrant Voices in the Pandemic: ISBN 978-1910146859, is a collection of stories that show how the COVID-19 period has influenced art.

Literary Criticism

• Theater of War and Exile. Twelve Playwrights, Directors and Performers from Eastern Europe and Israel. McFarland Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-0786473120
• Women’s Comedic Art as Social Revolution. Five Performers and the Lessons of Their Subversive Humor. McFarland Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-0786460724
• Realms of Exile. Nomadism, Diasporas and Eastern European Voices, editor Lanham, MD:Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0739103333
• Sisters of Medea. The Tragic Heroine across Cultures. University Press of the South, 2002. ISBN 978-1931948487