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Distinctions

Awards & Honours

Art Awards

Recognition for the creation and promotion of Archetypal Expressionism.

  1. 2008UNESCO Ambassador of Eurointegration through Art.
  2. 2009Excellence Award offered by the City Hall of Drobeta Turnu Severin City and the County Council of Mehedinți, Romania, December 2009.
  3. 2011Honorary citizen of his birthtown, Baia de Aramă, Mehedinți, Romania, May 2011.
  4. 2012OPERA OMNIA Art Award offered by Suceava County Council, January 2012.
  5. 2012‘Black Sea Danubian Social & Economic Innovator’ Trophy for Art, offered by Eurolink–House of Europe Foundation, Bucharest, May 2012, in partnership with the European Commission and the Romanian Academy, for ‘creating and promoting a new concept in European arts, Archetypal Expressionism.’
  6. 2012Featured artist by It’s Liquid international art, architecture & design magazine, November 2012.
  7. 2014Featured artist by Casa Lux monthly magazine, the first glossy magazine in Romania, September 2014.
  8. 2016Featured poet & artist by Trafika Europe magazine, USA, August 2016.
  9. 2018‘Meritul Bucovinei’, the most important award of Suceava County Council, November 2018.

Literary Awards

Honours for poetry, fiction and cultural journalism.

  1. 1996The haiku poetry award offered by Daily Yomiuri newspaper, Japan.
  2. 1998The award for cultural journalism given by the Romanian Ministry of Culture.
  3. 2001The award for cultural journalism given by the City Hall and the County Council of Suceava.
  4. 2010Naji Naaman Honorary Award for the whole activity, Lebanon, 2010. Honorary member of Maison Naaman pour la Culture.
  5. 2011His poems have been selected by the Spanish editor, writer, and visual artist Fernando Sabido Sánchez for his unique online anthology of poetry, Antología Poesía Universal, and by the literary experts from The East Tennessee State University, USA, for Best Poems Encyclopedia.
  6. 2011Premio Internazionale ‘Messina Città d’Arte’ 2011, Messina, Italy, for the English version of the poem ‘The Alchemical City’.
  7. 2011The Romanian Writers Union–Bacău Association Award, 2011, for the novel Esto’s Lover.
  8. 2022International Poetry Award ‘Aco Karamanov’ 2022 (in a competition with 179 poets worldwide) for the English version of the manuscript The Lives of the Painters. The book was translated into Macedonian and published in Northern Macedonia.
  9. 2023Prize ‘On the Trails of Orpheus’ 2023 at the International Poetry Festival ‘Orpheus’ in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.