in the anthology of Romanian contemporary fiction Tizenegy kortárs román prózaíró (Literator, 2005). Literary criticism Frontier traffic: The Prose of the Generation of the Eighties (Trafic de frontieră. Proza generației 80) (Paralela 45, 2000) The Forked Eye and the Squinting Tongue (Ochiul bifurcat, limba sașie. Proza generației 80), Vol II (Paralela 45, 2003). Translation Under the title La Doi Lebădoi, Oțoiu translated into Romanian the famous novel At Swim-Two-Birds by the Irish modernist Flann O'Brien (Paralela 45, 2005). The translation is furthered by a consistent introduction and numerous footnotes. Oțoiu's translations into English include the cultural tourist guidebook Tourism in Maramureș (Cert-Phare, 1998) and the manual for foreign investors, Modern Elements of Entrepreneurial Training ICTWAY 2003 (Editura Fundatiei CDIMM, 2003). Written at Salzburg Seminar in Austria, Oțoiu's chapter The seven POEs was part of the collective writing experiment Naked Went the Novelist(1998). English literature and cultural studies Oțoiu has authored numerous articles on British and Irish literature and their interferences with Romanian culture. Some of these have been included in the volume Under Eastern Eyes: Cross-cultural Refractions (Timișoara: Marineasa, 2003). He has contributed with a chapter entitled Automobile Metempsychoses in the Land of Dracula to the volume Autopia: Cars and Culture, edited by Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr (London: Reaktion Books, 2002). He has synthesized the evolution of the Romanian reception of James Joyce's work in the chapter 'Le sens du pousser': On the Spiral of Joyce's Reception in Romania in the massive study The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, edited by Geert Lernout and Wim Van Mierlo (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004). A comparative study paralleling the situation of postcommunist culture in Romania with postcolonial contexts elsewhere—called An Exercise in Fictional Liminality: Postcolonialism, Postcommunism, and Romania's Threshold Generation was published in the Chicago-based Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Oțoiu also wrote prefaces to John Barth's second Romanian edition of The Floating Opera and to Flann O'Brien's first Romanian edition of At Swim-Two-Birds. Honors and awards Oțoiu's debut book reaped three national awards, including the debut award of the Writers' Union for 1986 and the debut award of the Association of Professional Writers of Romania (ASPRO) (1996). Most of his subsequent books were shortlisted for the ASPRO award. In 2003 Oțoiu has received the first Residential Bursary ever granted by Ireland Literature Exchange towards the translation of the novel At Swim-Two-Birds by O'Brien. Oțoiu has