Dumitru Radu Popa
Dumitru Radu Popa (born October 26, 1949) is a Romanian-born writer, essayist, translator and literary critic. In 1985, he defected to the US, asking for political asylum. Education Popa obtained a Master of Arts in Romance Languages and Literature from the University of Bucharest in 1972. He obtained a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Columbia University in 1989. Books Accidental Tourist on the New Frontier: An Introductory Guide to Global Legal Research (with Jeanne Rehberg). Littleton, CO: Rotman & Co., 1998. Five collections of short stories and two novels (in Romanian) (1982–2001) One critical essay about the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (in Romanian) (1980). Bas-relief with Heroes. Memphis, TN: Memphis University Press, 1988 (Introductory study to Romanian poetry in English version). Poetry – A Scar on the Wall of Air. Introductory study and translations (with Thomas C. Carslon) in Little Bones in Winter, Selected Poems of Virgil Mazilescu. Bucharest: Romanian Cultural Foundation, 1996. Ut Musica Poesis. Introductory essay in Selected Poems of Mihai Eminescu. Bucharest: Univers Publishing House, 2000. La Naissance: structures symboliques. In Religion, Fiction, and History. Essays in Memory of loan Petru Ed. by Sorin Antohi. Bucharest: Nemira, 2001. Antoine de Saint-Exupery -