Bucharest: Award to Serbian poet Adam Puslojić

04. Aug 2021.
The Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in Bucharest, Stefan Tomašević, attended the ceremony at the National Museum of Romanian Literature on the occasion of the presentation of the "Mihai Eminescu" award (for poetry and translation), which was awarded to Serbian poet and translator Adam Puslojić for 2020/2021.

Adam Puslojić has been an honorary member of the Romanian Academy since 1995, and for decades, with his numerous translations of literary works, he has been credited with bringing Serbian and Romanian cultures closer together.

In a short speech, Ambassador Tomašević pointed out that Adam Puslojić had built a kind of bridge of friendship between the Serbian and Romanian people, evoking the works of Mihai Eminescu for many generations in Serbia.

He emphasized that, thanks to his work, contemporary Romanian writers are known in Serbia, and pointed out that Adam Puslojić, in that way, made an exceptional contribution to the development of friendship between the two peoples.

In the end, he pointed out that Serbia is committed to working on the improvement and development of relations with Romania in all areas, especially in the culture that connects the two countries in the best possible way.

The ceremony was also attended by the newly appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Andrei Novak, as well as the Serbian artist Dragoljub Firulović.

Immediately before the ceremony, in the premises of the Embassy, ​​Ambassador Tomašević met with Serbian writers Adam Puslojić and Dragoljub Firulović, and the meeting was also attended by the Vice President of the Romanian Writers' Society, Razvan Vanku.

The interlocutors exchanged opinions on the directions of future cultural cooperation between Serbia and Romania.

It was jointly stated that due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic, there was a certain delay in cultural cooperation and that it is necessary to work more intensively on organizing literary evenings, concerts and exhibitions, in order to bring Serbian culture even closer to the Romanian public.