Bio


Iulia Enkelana (pseudonym of Iulia-Maria Kyçyku) was born in Bucharest in 1999.

She is the author of a novel (Dacă există o voce / If there is a voice, Librarum Haemus, 2021) several plays (published in the collective books DeMontat, Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2021, and Drama 5 - 5 piese de teatru, 2021 editura LiterNet, 2022), short stories (published in Romanian and Albanian cultural magazines: Neuma, Viața Românească, Haemus, Poeteka etc.), poems (published in The Bridge Magazine, Suprerpresent Magazine and A New Ulster Review) and essays.

Iulia made several short films (Imperfect circles, MATCH, Prenaisscance, The Birth of an IdeaHand Made Poetry, She blinks, I had to pawn the diamond, The absent city, de/mascat etc.), some of which have been officially selected in international film festivals, such as Ridgefield Independent Film Festival, Tirana International Film Festival, Her Independent Film Festival, Lift-Off Global Network, Southeast Regional Film Festival, Retrospective of Jupiter, SIMULTAN Festival or Channel BUEIFF.

She published the online albums: do you remember your first loneliness (photographs, 2017) and Eyeland (drawings, 2016).

She participated in workshops, laboratories and masterclasses in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Chișinău and Lyon. She took part in several photography exhibitions (LoosenArt, ESPY 2019 Photography Awards at Elysium Gallery, Shame and Lost and found, Bucureşti – mon amour; Bucureștiul în alb și negru, Bucureşti – mon amour). Two of Iulia’s photographs were included in the #OurLakeOhrid album, Photo & Story Contest 2017, by UNESCO. In autumn 2019, she published her artist’s statement and a selection of photographs in The Bridge magazine

Iulia graduated theatre studies at the Faculty of Theatre and Film, University Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, writing a thesis that discusses the debate of canonical works and the relevance of Hamlet, A doll’s house and Six characters in search of an author in the present time, and is currently studying Visual Studies – Society, Multimedia and Performance (MA) at the Center of Excellence in the Study of Image, University of Bucharest.

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