Philip Ó Ceallaigh&nbsp;is short story writer as well as a translator. In 2006, he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His two short story collections,&nbsp;Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Pleasant Light of Day, were short-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He lives in Bucharest. [Photograph by&nbsp;Johannes Kruse.]

Philip Ó Ceallaigh

<h4>Bryan Rennie is a British historian of religions and the Vira I. Heinz Professor of Religion at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. Known for his works on Romanian scholar Mircea Eliade, Rennie was awarded the Mircea Eliade Centennial Jubilee Medal for contributions to the History of Religions by then-President of Romania Traian Băsescu in 2006.</h4>

Bryan Rennie

Mircea Eliade and Antisemitism: An Exchange

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

Mircea Eliade: Eponym of the Humanities?

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Bryan Rennie is a British historian of religions and the Vira I. Heinz Professor of Religion at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. Known for his works on Romanian scholar Mircea Eliade, Rennie was awarded the Mircea Eliade Centennial Jubilee Medal for contributions to the History of Religions by then-President of Romania Traian Băsescu in 2006.