Editing Andrei Codrescu (section)

{{short description|American writer (born 1946)}}
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| name             = Andrei Codrescu
| image            = Image:AndreiCodrescu.jpg
| caption          = Codrescu in 2009
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1946|12|20}}
| birth_place      =[[Sibiu]], [[Kingdom of Romania]]
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| occupation={{flatlist|
* [[Novelist]]
* [[poet]]
* [[essayist]]
* [[journalist]]
* [[screenwriter]]
* [[Pundit|commentator]]
}}
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| citizenship      = [[Romania]]<br/>[[United States]]
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| genre            = [[Poetry]], [[screenwriting]], [[journalism]], [[fiction]], [[non-fiction]]
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| spouse           = Aurelia Munteanu<br/>Alice Henderson<br/>Laura Cole Rosenthal
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| children         = 2
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| awards           = [[Peabody Award]] <br/> [[Ovid Prize]]
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| website          = {{URL|https://www.codrescu.com/}}
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'''Andrei Codrescu''' ({{IPA|ro|anˈdrej koˈdresku}}; born December 20, 1946) is a Romanian-born American [[poet]], [[novelist]], essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for [[National Public Radio]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=John J. O'Connor |date=March 20, 1995 |title=Television Review; Romanian Kerouac Is Back | work = [[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/20/arts/television-review-romanian-kerouac-is-back.html |access-date=2011-01-18}}</ref> He is the winner of the [[Peabody Award]] for his film ''Road Scholar'' and the [[Ovid Prize]] for poetry. He was the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at [[Louisiana State University]] from 1984 until his retirement in 2009.