Florin Ion Firimita
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Florin Ion Firimita is an art teacher at Pomperaug Regional High School in Southbury, Connecticut. He was born in Romania in 1965 he moved to the United States in 1990 and in 1997 he graduated with a degree in Art Education and with a masters degree in 2005.
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Mr. Firimita has had a movie made about him called The Art of Leaving, directed by Brian Kamerzel. In the past years, his artwork has become widely collected and requested in numerous exhibits in the US, Europe and Australia. In 1992, Mr. Firimita received an Honorable Mention at the National Arts Program, and in 1994 he was the recipient of the National Prize for Literature awarded by the New York University. In the United States, his writing has appeared, among others, in Works + Conversations, Tertulia Magazine, Many Mountains Moving, The Literary Review, The Sun, House Beautiful, and The Hartford Courant. In Europe, his fiction was published in England and France. He is currently working on his first novel, and was recently included in an anthology entitled "New American Writers."
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