Mihai Buzea
Absolvent de filologie (1996) și de master (2005), a fost profesor și reporter. În prezent este colaborator la revistele Timpul, Dilema Veche și Familia. În ianuarie 2014 a plecat la Londra, unde a învățat meseria de arborist, experiență descrisă în cartea Gastarbeiter (2017). A publicat în 2006 romanul Berile de Aur, în 2018 Jimmy și Povestea lui Vasile Pogor, în 2019 Recrutorii, în 2021 Paralel iar în 2022 Vulcan, Lumina vine de la Asfințit și Frunza.
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Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who ranks among the most distinguished German-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century.
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Although internationally he’s most acclaimed because of his novels, he was also a prolific playwright. His characters are often at work on a lifetime and never-ending major project while they deal with themes such as suicide, madness and obsession, and, as Bernhard did, a love-hate relationship with Austria. His prose is tumultuous but sober at the same time, philosophic by turns, with a musical cadence and plenty of black humor.
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Romain Gary
Romain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name Émile Ajar .
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Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.
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Florin Lăzărescu
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Gabriela Adameșteanu
Gabriela Adameșteanu is a Romanian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator. The author of the celebrated novels The Equal Way of Every Day (1975) and Wasted Morning (1983), she is also known as an activist in support of civil society and member of the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS), as well as editor of Revista 22.
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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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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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Marian Coman
Marian Coman is a Romanian writer, comic book scriptwriter, and editor. He is the author of acclaimed novels and short story collections such as Haiganu. Fluviul Șoaptelor, Haiganu. Furia Oarbă, Testamentul de ciocolată, Omulețul din perete, and Ultima carte. His work has received multiple national and international awards, has been translated into several languages, and featured in numerous anthologies.
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He was editor-in-chief for various cultural and mainstream publications and wrote the scripts for some of the most enduring Romanian comic book series since 1989, including Harap Alb continuă and Tinerețe fără bătrânețe. He is a member of PEN Romania and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).
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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.
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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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Saou Ichikawa
Saou Ichikawa graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel, Hunchback, won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, and she is the first author with a physical disability to receive the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan’s top literary awards. She has congenital myopathy and uses a ventilator and an electric wheelchair. Ichikawa lives outside Tokyo.
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