Editing Andrei Codrescu (section)

==Biography==
Codrescu was born in [[Sibiu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.codrescu.com/bio\title=https://www.codrescu.com/bio|title=Andrei Codrescu: Biography|website=www.codrescu.com|access-date=December 2, 2024}}</ref> His father was an ethnic Romanian engineer; his mother was a non-practicing Jew. Their son was informed of his Jewish background at age 13.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scriitorul Andrei Codrescu: "Vremea României la Nobel a trecut" |date=October 15, 2016 |url=https://adevarul.ro/locale/cluj-napoca/scriitorul-andrei-codrescu-vremea-romaniei-nobel-trecut-1_5800b99d5ab6550cb88dac4a/index.html |access-date=December 31, 2020 |language=ro}}</ref> Codrescu published his first poems in [[Romanian language|Romanian]] under the pen name Andrei Steiu. In 1965 he and his mother, a photographer and printer, were able to leave Romania after Israel paid [[United States dollar|US$]]2,000 (or US$10,000, according to other sources<ref name="Los Angeles Times">{{Cite news |last=Leydon |first=Joe |date=August 8, 1993 |title=Cover Story: Road Trip! : Andrei Codrescu is your basic droll Transylvanian poet and social commentator who was given a '68 Caddy and a mission: Find America and its soul |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-08-ca-21801-story.html |access-date=August 7, 2014}}</ref>) to the [[Communist Romania|Romanian communist regime]] for each of them.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diaspora in direct |url=http://www.formula-as.ro/1999/371/diaspora-in-direct-11/diaspora-in-direct-700-print |access-date=August 7, 2014 |language=ro}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=A Refugee Among Refugees |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 11, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/11QUESTIONS.html?_r=0 |access-date=August 7, 2014|last1=Solomon |first1=Deborah }}</ref> After some time in Italy, they moved to the United States in 1966, and settled in [[Detroit]], where he became a regular at [[John Sinclair (poet)|John Sinclair]]'s Artists and Writers' Workshop. A year later, he moved to New York, where he became part of the literary scene on the [[Lower East Side]]. There he met [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Ted Berrigan]], and [[Anne Waldman]], and published his first poems in English.

In 1970, his poetry book, ''License to Carry a Gun,'' won the "Big Table Poetry Award".<ref>{{Cite web |last=York |first=Carnegie Corporation of New |title=Andrei Codrescu |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/andrei-codrescu/ |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=York |first=Carnegie Corporation of New |title=Andrei Codrescu |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/andrei-codrescu/ |access-date=2020-05-11 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}</ref> He moved to San Francisco in 1970, and lived on the West Coast for seven years, four of those in [[Monte Rio]], a [[Sonoma County]] town on the Russian River. He also lived in [[Baltimore]] (where he taught at [[Johns Hopkins University]]), New Orleans and [[Baton Rouge]], publishing a book every year. During this time he wrote poetry, stories, essays and reviews for many publications, including ''[[The New York Times]]'', the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[Harper's]]'', and the ''[[Paris Review]]''. He had regular columns in ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'', the ''[[Baltimore City Paper|City Paper]]'', ''[[Architecture]]'', ''[[Funny Times (newspaper)|Funny Times]]'', ''[[Gambit Weekly]]'', and ''[[Neon (magazine)|Neon]]''.
 
Codrescu was a regular commentator on National Public Radio's news program, ''[[All Things Considered]]'', from 1983 until 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrei Codrescu |website=[[NPR]]|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2100359/andrei-codrescu}}</ref> He won the 1995 Peabody Award for the film ''Road Scholar'', an American [[road movie]] that he wrote and starred in, and is a two-time winner of the [[Pushcart Prize]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Allene |first=Bruce |date=1983-08-12 |title=''Pushcart Anthology'' review |work=The Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0812/081273.html |access-date=2018-01-22}}</ref> His book ''So Recently a World: Selected Poems, 1968-2016'' was a [[National Book Award]] nominee.

In 1989, Codrescu covered the [[Romanian Revolution]] for National Public Radio and [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]'s ''Nightline''. His renewed interest in the Romanian language and [[Romanian literature|literature]] led to new work written in Romanian, including ''Miracle and Catastrophe'', a book-length interview conducted by the theologian Robert Lazu, and ''The Forgiven Submarine'', an epic poem written in collaboration with poet [[Ruxandra Cesereanu]], which won the 2008 [[Radio România Cultural]] award. His books have been translated into Romanian by Ioana Avadani, Ioana Ieronim, Carmen Firan, Rodica Grigore, and Lăcrimioara Stoie. In 2002 Codrescu returned to Romania with a PBS ''Frontline World'' video crew to "take the temperature" of his homeland and produced the story, "My Old Haunts".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2002-10-31 |title=My Old Haunts |work=Frontline World |publisher=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/romania}}</ref> In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious international Ovidius Prize (also known as the Ovid Prize), previous winners of which include [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], [[Amos Oz]], and [[Orhan Pamuk]].

In 1981, Codrescu became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He is the editor and founder of the online journal ''[[Exquisite Corpse]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exquisite Corpse - Journal of Letters and Life |url=http://corpse.org/index.php |access-date=2020-05-11 |website=corpse.org}}</ref> a journal of "books and ideas". He reigned as King of the [[Krewe du Vieux]] for the 2002 [[New Orleans Mardi Gras]] season.

Codrescu's archives and much of his personal library are now part of the Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections,<ref>{{Cite web |title=LSU Libraries |url=https://lib.lsu.edu/special/ |website=lib.lsu.edu}}</ref> [[University of Iowa]] Libraries, New Orleans Historical Society, and the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]].