Demonul amiezii a fost nominalizata la Premiul Pulitzer, a câştigat National Book Awards şi a fost inclusa în cele mai bune o suta de carti ale domeniului de catre The Times. Cartea a fost deja tradusa in limba romana. 

Ultima carte a dlui Solomon, Far From The Tree, este de asemenea vizata pentru traducere si publicare in viitorul apropiat. Capitolele cartii exploreaza dificultatile de acceptare a persoanelor cu identitati care ies din normele societatii mainstream. Far From The Tree a fost hulita cu vehementa pentru capitolele care vorbesc despre relatia dintre parinti si copiii lor sociopati, dar de asemenea a primit elogii entuziaste pentru capitolele care vorbesc despre relatiile dintre parinti, societate si copii cu sindromul down sau care sufera de nanism.

Prezenta domnului Solomon la Bucuresti este o ocazie unica pentru publicul larg bucurestean, ca si pentru studenti si profesionisti din domeniile sociologie, psihologie, studii culturale sau politice, sa interactioneze direct cu un specialist de statura internationala si sa patrunda impreuna intr-un domeniu in care dl Solomon este un lider plin de empatie si carisma.

A native New Yorker, Andrew Solomon studied at Yale and is a Cambridge PhD in psychology. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at Cornell and Special Advisor on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Mental Health at Yale, as well as director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Trans Youth Family Allies; the University of Michigan Depression Center; Columbia Psychiatry; and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of Columbia University Medical Center.

Mr Solomon’s The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Scribner, 2001), won the 2001 National Book Award for Nonfiction as well as twelve other national awards. In 2002 he was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. His book was included in the London Times list of one hundred best books of the decade. A New York Times bestseller, The Noonday Demon has also been a bestseller in seven foreign countries and has been published in twenty-two languages. Romanian is the twenty-third language the book has been translated into, and Humanitas Publishing House will launch it in Mr Solomon’s presence at Bucharest on 13 June, 2014.

His 2012 book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, for which discussions of a Romanian translation are already under way, tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon’s deeply insightful proposition is that diversity is what unites us.

Mr Solomon has generously accepted to give a talk on 14 June, at the invitation of a small consortium of human rights organizations, inspired by his work and his presentations.
This will be a unique opportunity for professionals as well as young people and parents to be exposed to some of the most thorough and brilliant research of the century regarding topics of great importance: parenting, identity, empathy as the engine of acceptance.

We are honoured by his generosity and hope to be able to give Mr Solomon the recognition and gratitude he deserves for accepting to share his incredible work and valuable time with us, and implicitly thus show his support for human rights defenders in Romania.