Daniel Onaca's books published at other publishing houses can be ordered directly from the author by email
onaca.daniel54@gmail.com
or by phone +46 727 274 838
P U B L I S H E D B O O K S :
- Between Earth and Heaven's Customs - folk tales from Romanian folklore (Recito Publishing House, Borås, Sweden, 2016)
- From Loke's World - poems (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2016)
- Seven modern and contemporary Swedish poets - critical essays (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2016)
- A Scandinavian Winter - 100 haiku poems in classic style (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2016)
- Dew of the Year 2016 - another 100 haiku poems in classic style (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017)
- Perfume of immortals - another 100 haiku poems in classic style (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017)
- At the the Fjord's Estuary - poems (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017)
- Stories from the Fishermen's Shore in Limhamn - collection of Scandinavian stories (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017)
- Dew of the Year 2017 - 100 haiku poems and other sorrows (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2018)
- Six keys to six gates - fairy tales (Recito Publishing House, Borås, 2018)
- Perfume of the eternal - 100 haiku poems in classic style too (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2018)
- From the Andes mountains - stories for children (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2018)
- Seven Keys to Seven Gates - immortal stories. fairy tales (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2019)
- Dew of the Year 2018 - 100 haiku poems and other calamities (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2019)
- Ten other modern and contemporary Swedish poets - critical essays (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2019)
- Perennial perfumes - another 100 haiku poems in classic style (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2019)
- Decantations from 365 days - gogyohka poems (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2020)
- Dew of the Year 2019 - 100 senryu poems with traces of calamities (Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest, 2020)
- Old Perfumes, new Aromas - haiku poems (Bifrost Publishing House, Bucharest, 2020)
AWARDS
- 2017: Second prize at the Book of the Year 2016 competition, in the Poetry category, awarded by Ithaca magazine from Dublin / Ireland, for the volume of poems From the Loke's World
- 2017: 3rd prize in the Book of the Year 2016 competition, in the Prose category, awarded by Ithaca magazine from Dublin / Ireland, for the volume of critical essays Seven modern and contemporary Swedish poets
- 2018: 3rd prize in the Book of the Year 2017 competition, in the Prose category, awarded by Ithaca magazine from Dublin / Ireland, for the volume of stories Histories from the Fishermen's Shore
- 2020: Third Prize in the Book of the Year 2019 Competition, Special Section, awarded by Ithaca Magazine in Dublin / Ireland, for the volume of essays Ten Other Modern and Contemporary Swedish Poets
CRITICAL APPRAISALS
"The author makes an interesting experiment, combining the aesthetics of the Japanese species with Western ways, embroidering it with themes and literary motifs from mythology, from Romanian folklore." (Ioana Bud)
"D. Onaca observes, notes and, more than taking emotional photos of the moment, manages to include in three lines a film with cursive images, prolonged in eternity. " (Matei Mircioane)
"Daniel Onaca stepped into the realm of haiku as an author born in Romanian, knowledgeable about the way of speaking of the people of Banat (which he highlights in his creations), but also living in Sweden." (Marius Chelaru)
"The poet and writer Daniel Onaca takes the art of Romanian haiku to new dimensions, as demonstrated by his books published at Coresi Publishing House." (Vasile Poenaru)
"We can retrace Daniel Onaca's itinerary, from the Swedish village hidden in the deep forests of Småland, Sweden, where he lives, to the Dobrogean lands where summer returns periodically, but also the subsequent spiritual itinerary, from confrontation with the rigors of Scandinavian winter, to its exorcism by meeting the brilliance of the Black Sea (...) The feelings expressed in the collection are triggered both by the events of the immediate world and by those that occurred in the native country, to which the author is always attentive, and which send their echo in the text. ” (Marina Cușa)
"Daniel Onaca's Japanese poems transcend any known creative localism; they do not "happen" here or there, but everywhere. The author writes transdisciplinary, like a true citizen of the world, unmistakably affirming a mark of post-literature and post-humanism. The miniature universe fits him perfectly, as long as he is aware that he has at his disposal an infinity of lives, which appear and evaporate rapidly, each under the influence of another sun. Daniel Onaca writes encyclopedically, and his cycles are collections of fragments from various cultures, from various civilizations, from various eras, lived simultaneously and brought up to date and then saved through unifying archaeological, museum, bibliographic visions. ” (Angela Furtună)
"Daniel Onaca certainly has the gift of great storytellers aware of the initiatory function of mythical stories. The source of inspiration is an ancestral Sweden, in which the characters endowed with the grace of saying carry on a tradition in which myths are reinvented, to serve an implicit educational purpose. The seed of truth consecrated by legend is inserted in the journey of the narrator-character, an alter-ego of the writer - curious and well anchored in the traditional horizon of Swedish culture, as announced by the title Strange stories on the shores of fishermen. (Andra Tischer)
Beyond the reconditioned "fairy tale", Daniel Onaca's narrative is a "textbook", which does not lack memories, even small notes, dating from various times, part of what even means the author's biography. [...] Wide compositions, with overlapping times and narrative details, not without poetic sequences, knowingly slipping meditations about the purpose of life and the ways to fulfill it, these fairy tales find their "purpose" in reading those for that the world still has a "purpose". (Ada D. Cruceanu)
Prose writer and poet, translator and storyteller. Born in 1954 in Resita, he left Romania in 1986. Currently settled in southern Sweden, in Malmö. In his adopted country he graduated from the faculties of Philology (Litteraturvetenskap), Library Science and Linguistics (Språkvetenskap) at Lund University. Literary debut in volume, in 2016. Author of 18 volumes, of which 16 published in Romanian and two in Swedish. Present in four anthologies with poems and prose texts. Areas covered include haiku and poems, short stories, fairy tales and children stories, essays and literary reviews.
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