15 Facts About Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu is the winner of the Peabody Award for his film Road Scholar and the Ovid Prize for poetry.

Andrei Codrescu was the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009.

Andrei Codrescu's father was an ethnic Romanian engineer; his mother was a non-practicing Jew.

Andrei Codrescu moved to San Francisco in 1970, and lived on the West Coast for seven years, four of those in Monte Rio, a Sonoma County town on the Russian River.

Andrei Codrescu lived in Baltimore, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, publishing a book every year.

Andrei Codrescu had regular columns in The Baltimore Sun, the City Paper, Architecture, Funny Times, Gambit Weekly, and Neon.

Andrei Codrescu won the 1995 Peabody Award for the film Road Scholar, an American road movie that he wrote and starred in, and is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize.

In 1989, Andrei Codrescu covered the Romanian Revolution for National Public Radio and ABC News's Nightline.

Andrei Codrescu's renewed interest in the Romanian language and literature led to new work written in Romanian, including Miracle and Catastrophe, a book-length interview conducted by the theologian Robert Lazu, and The Forgiven Submarine, an epic poem written in collaboration with poet Ruxandra Cesereanu, which won the 2008 Radio Romania Cultural award.

Andrei Codrescu's books have been translated into Romanian by Ioana Avadani, Ioana Ieronim, Carmen Firan, Rodica Grigore, and Lacrimioara Stoie.

In 2002 Andrei Codrescu returned to Romania with a PBS Frontline World video crew to "take the temperature" of his homeland and produced the story, "My Old Haunts".

In 1981, Andrei Codrescu became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

Andrei Codrescu is the editor and founder of the online journal Exquisite Corpse, a journal of "books and ideas".

Andrei Codrescu reigned as King of the Krewe du Vieux for the 2002 New Orleans Mardi Gras season.

Andrei Codrescu was a commentator for NPR, and on the December 19,1995, broadcast of All Things Considered, Andrei Codrescu reported that some Christians believe in a "rapture" and four million believers will ascend to Heaven immediately.