Meet Christopher Lawson
Designated a prohibited immigrant by apartheid South Africa, deported from Zambia and declared a distressed British subject by HM Ambassador, Antananarivo, Chris transformed himself from bush teacher to TESOL professional at the University of London Institute of Education and was appointed British Council Lecturer at Cuza University in 1976, during Romania’s Communist era. Fascinated, he returned to Romania some 60 times and has visited most parts of the country. Tiring of Nordic perfection after 19 years in Copenhagen, he settled in Iasi in 2003.
Chris likes trains, theatre, politics, the blues and seafood, and eating grilled sardines while Atlantic breakers smash on the Portuguese shoreline.Articles by Christopher Lawson
- Postcard from Lisbon 20|01|2010
- Harold Pinter: 10.10.1930 - 24.12.2008 04|03|2009
- The Ceauşescus' state visit to Britain, 1978 16|04|2009
- Two state visits 02|02|2009
- Balkans, balls and ghoulies 09|09|2008
- The Casa Universitarilor 04|10|2008
- Ewing Toil 18|05|2008
- A long way from Vienna 06|03|2008
- Postcard from Vienna 23|12|2007
- Two sons of Timisoara 08|06|2007
- "How many Romanian women are too many?" 30|04|2007
- 'Shoulder-charging the door in turn, we broke the lock like 1930s Chicago gangsters' 01|04|2007
- The Securitate and me 30|12|2006
- Three different faces December 2005
- Crimes and misdemeanors April 2006
- Ceausescu's Africans April 2005
- Letter from Iasi April 2005
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