Not only does it paint a vivid picture of a post-industrial Eastern-Europe, but it also has a story. She wrote it on the bus, on the way home from the factory she worked at as a secretary – her first job after graduating Law School. ‘Loredana’ is a biographical poem that, in a way, encompasses the spirit of her poetry debut book.
‘Loredana’ is by far Deniz’s biggest ‘hit’ poem, widely quoted and posted on social media ever since people laid hands on her book.
Fotocrom Paradis, although at first sight about a lifestyle of parties and people, is also candid, unrelenting and fragile at the same time. It is a voice that is regarded as innovative, neutral – likened to Siri even – but the tone of her poems is also confessional, biographical. Recently, Deniz has started writing again, experimenting with a voice that is so unique in contemporary Romanian literature that it has undoubtedly become hers. Before the release of her first and only poetry book, Fotocrom Paradis (OMG Publishing, 2020), which also received two of the most important literary prizes in Romania (the Mihai Eminescu Literary Award for debut poetry and the Sofia Nădejde Literary Award for Literature Written by Women), Deniz had stopped writing for a number of years, as a law student and for some time after she graduated. Deniz has published poems in literary magazines in Romania since she was a teenager. 1993) was born in Suceava, Romania and has lived and studied in Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest, where she currently lives. The supreme happiness coming out of cardsĭeniz Otay (b. I continue to believe it was hallucination Gliding amidst puffy faced eastern beings Passing by floods of people in a small pothole Traversând puhoiuri dintr-o micuță groapă
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