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  Pavel Nedelcu

  Writer of Romanian origin. Translator and literary critic.
  
  Editor of the cultural magazine LiterNautica. BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures and MA in Translation and Interpreting.
  
  His literature addresses social issues such as confusion and alienation in the present world. It speaks up for the oppressed, the poor, the “mentally ill”, the immigrants, the “unfit”. It denounces patriarchy and its subtle mechanisms of oppression of women. It uncovers environmental pollution. Finally, it reveals what is left of humanity in an increasingly inhumane world.
  
  
  

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  Umberto Eco

  Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
  Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco

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  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
  
  He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
  
  Some of his works ( Flight , all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them tha

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  Milan Kundera

  Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
  
  Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.
  

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  Virginia Woolf

  (Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
  
  During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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  Isaac Asimov

  Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
  
  Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
  
  Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
  
  People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire

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  Lyudmila Ulitskaya

  Russian profile here Людмила Улицкая
  
  Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria in 1943. She grew up in Moscow where she studied biology at the Moscow State University.
  
  Having worked in the field of genetics and biochemistry, Ulitskaya began her literary career by joining the Jewish drama theatre as a literary consultant. She was the author of two movie scripts produced in the early 1990s — The Liberty Sisters (Сестрички Либерти, 1990) and A Woman for All (Женщина для всех, 1991).
  
  Ulitskaya's first novel Sonechka (Сонечка) published in Novy Mir in 1992 almost immediately became extremely popular, and was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Awa

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  Mircea Cărtărescu

  Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
  
  Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
  
  Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enc

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  Paul Auster

  Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Le

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  Paul Lynch

  Paul Lynch is the internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels: PROPHET SONG, BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING, and the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2018, among other prizes.
  
  His debut novel RED SKY IN MORNING was published to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic in 2013. It was a finalist for France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) and was nominated for the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize). In the US, it was an Amazon.com Book of the Month and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, where Lynch was hailed as “a lapidary young master”. It was a book of the year in The Irish Times, The Toronto Star, the Irish Independent and t

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  Ioana Pârvulescu

  Ioana Pârvulescu este o eseistă, publicistă, critic literar român și conferențiar la Universitatea din București. (Wikipedia)

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  Mihail Sebastian

  Mihail Sebastian, born Iosif Hechter, was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist.

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  J.K. Rowling

  See also: Robert Galbraith
  Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she

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  Samantha Harvey

  Samantha Harvey has completed postgraduate courses in philosophy and in Creative Writing. In addition to writing, she has traveled extensively and taught in Japan and has lived in Ireland and New Zealand. She recently co-founded an environmental charity and lives in Bath, England.
  
  Her first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the 2009 Betty Trask Prize.

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  Doina Ruști

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  DOINA RUŞTI is one of Romania’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, known for her powerful blend of historical imagination, realism, and political depth. She is the author of fourteen novels and three short story collections, translated into more than fifteen languages and studied in Romanian schools.
  Her most awarded novel, The Ghost in the Mill, is a haunting parable of communism. Her Phanariot Trilogy — The Phanariot Manuscript, The Book of Perilous Dishes, and Homeric — reimagines 18th-century Balkan history through fantastical and symbolic lenses. The Book of Perilous Dishes appeared in English with Neem Tree Press (UK, 2022 & 2024), was reviewed in The Guardian, praised by the Historical Novels Society, and selected by Amazon boo

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  Ioana Nicolaie

  Ioana Nicolaie s-a nascut in Sangeorz-Bai, judetul Bistrita-Nasaud.
  A absolvit in 1997 Facultatea de Litere a Universitatii din Bucuresti, iar in 1998 a terminat cursurile de masterat ale aceleiasi facultati. Dupa absolvire a lucrat in invatamint, in presa si in domeniul editorial. Este membra a Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania.
  A publicat mai multe volume de versuri (Poza retusata, Nordul, Credinta, Cenotaf ), doua romane (Cerul din burta, O pasare pe sirma) si literatura pentru copii (Aventurile lui Arik si Arik si mercenarii). A fost nominalizata la premii nationale si internationale, cel mai important fiind Eastern European Literature Award. Volumul Nordul a aparut in germana, in 2008, cu titlul Der Norden. Cerul din burta a fost publicat

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  Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu

  Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu (n. 1979) este scriitor, eseist, traducător, editor, preşedintele Festivalului Internaţional de Literatură de la Bucureşti (FILB). A debutat cu cronică literară în revista Luceafărul (1999), pe cînd era junior editor al Ziarului de Duminică. A publicat proză scurtă în majoritatea antologiilor „Prima mea…” de la Editura ART. În 2010 a publicat împreună cu Vasile Ernu volumul Ceea ce ne desparte. Epistolarul de la Hanul lui Manuc (Polirom), iar în 2012 a debutat ca poet, cu volumul Apoi, după bătălie, ne-am tras sufletul (Cartea Românească), nominalizat la premiile revistei Observator cultural şi la premiile Radio România Cultural pe anul 2012. În 2013 a publicat la Editura ART volumul Enter Ghost. Scrisori imaginare

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  Narine Abgaryan

  Наринэ Абгарян
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  Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award.

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• Andrei Gorzo

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  Radu Vancu

  Radu Vancu (n. 1978, Sibiu) este lector universitar la Facultatea de Litere din Sibiu. Lucrarea sa de doctorat a devenit una dintre exegezele critice esențiale asupra operei lui Mircea Ivănescu: Mircea Ivănescu. Poezia discreției absolute (2007). A publicat volumele de poezie: Epistole pentru Camelia (2002), Biographia litteraria (2006), Monstrul fericit (2009), Sebastian în vis (2010) și Amintiri pentru tatăl meu (2010). Este, de asemenea, autorul volumului Eminescu. Trei eseuri (2011) și coautor al antologiilor Cele mai frumoase poeme din 2010 (2011) și Cele mai frumoase poeme din 2011 (2012).

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• Daniela Rațiu

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  Alexandru Lamba

  Alexandru Lamba s-a născut în 1980, la Brașov. Este absolvent al facultății de Inginerie Electrică și Știința Calculatoarelor, în prezent activând în domeniul IT.
  În domeniul literar, a debutat în Gazeta SF cu o povestire în 2013.
  În registru SF, a publicat două romane: „Sub steaua infraroșie” (ed. Tritonic, 2016) și „Arhitecții speranței” (ed. Tritonic, 2017), un volum de proză scurtă „Singurătatea singularității” (ed. Herg Benet, 2018) și volumul „Cărări pe gheață”, primul al seriei Young-Adult „Stele și gheață” (ed. Herg Benet, 2019). A scris scenariul pentru albumele de bandă desenată „Focurile lumii noi” (ed. Geek Network, 2018) și „Povești din lumi și timpuri” (ed Pavcon, 2022), ilustrat de Alexandra Gold.
  În 2022, a publicat romanul rea

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  Anastasia Gavrilovici

  Anastasia Gavrilovici (n. 1995) a absolvit Facultatea de Litere a Universității București și cursurile de masterat ale Centrului de Excelență în Studiul Imaginii. A fost, în ultimii ani de liceu, redactor-șef adjunct al revistei „Alecart”, apoi a trecut prin „Zona Nouă”, iar din 2016 face parte din redacția „Poesis internațional”. A publicat poezie, cronică literară și eseu și a tradus cărți din engleză și spaniolă (Kurt Vonnegut, Ernesto Cardenal).

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  Tudor Ganea

  Tudor Ganea este arhitect. A debutat în 2016 cu romanul Cazemata (Polirom; tradus în 2020 în limba franceză), pentru care a primit premiul „Tînărul prozator al anului 2016” în cadrul Galei Tinerilor Scriitori, premiul pentru debut al revistei Observator cultural și premiul „Nepotu’ lui Thoreau” (debut) și a fost nominalizat la Premiile Uniunii Scriitorilor (debut). În 2017 i-a apărut cel de-al doilea roman, Miere (Polirom), distins cu premiul „Tînărul prozator al anului 2017”. În 2018 a publicat romanul Porci (Polirom), nominalizat pe lista scurtă a Premiului Uniunii Europene pentru Literatură 2019, iar în 2019 romanul 8 (Polirom). Fragmente din romanele sale au fost traduse în maghiară, turcă, italiană, franceză, spaniolă și engleză.

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  Guzel Yakhina

  Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award.
  Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a doctor, while her father is an engineer. She spoke Tatar at home and learned Russian only after she started going to daycare.
  
  She studied at the Department of Foreign Languages in the Tatar State University of Humanities and Education. In 1999, she moved to Moscow. In 2015, she graduated from the Moscow School of Film with a degree in screenwriting.
  Yakhina worked in public relations and advertising. She began her writing career with publications in the journals Neva and Oktyabr. Sections of her debut novel Zuleikha appeared in the journal Siberian

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• G.P. Ermin

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• Sașa Zare

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  Pavel Nedelcu

  Writer of Romanian origin. Translator and literary critic.
  
  Editor of the cultural magazine LiterNautica. BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures and MA in Translation and Interpreting.
  
  His literature addresses social issues such as confusion and alienation in the present world. It speaks up for the oppressed, the poor, the “mentally ill”, the immigrants, the “unfit”. It denounces patriarchy and its subtle mechanisms of oppression of women. It uncovers environmental pollution. Finally, it reveals what is left of humanity in an increasingly inhumane world.
  
  
  

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• Ruxandra Burcescu

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