Tatiana Niculescu (former name Tatiana Niculescu Bran) is a Romanian writer and former senior editor of the Bucharest Bureau of the BBC WS. She previously worked for almost 10 years as a radio presenter and producer of the World Service in London. Her non fiction novel Deadly Confession (Spovedanie la Tanacu) was published in 2006 by Humanitas Publishing House. It was followed by Judges’ Book (Cartea Judecatorilor). A second edition and e-book of Deadly Confession were issued by Polirom Publishing House in 2012. The novels caused a sensation in her native country and inspired the film director Cristian Mungiu who produced and directed the film Beyond the Hills based on the same novels. The film won the award for the best screenplay at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In 2007 a stage version of the books directed by the American-Romanian director Andrei Serban had been performed at La MaMa Theatre in New York. In 2008, the theatre performance was staged in Paris at the Béhague Palace. Peter Brook and Pascal Bruckner attended the performance.
In 2011, Tatiana Niculescu wrote the political novelThe Nights of the Patriarch.
In 2012, Polirom Publishing House published her novel In the Land of God, an African story about the ritual of young girls' genital mutilation. The novel was followed by The story of lady Marina and the unknown Bessarabian and several bestselling biographies published by Humanitas. 2015 -- Regina Maria. Ultima dorința; 2016 -- Mihai I, ultimul rege al românilor; 2017 -- Mistica rugăciunii și a revolverului. Viața lui Corneliu Zelea Codreanu; 2018 -- Ei mă consideră făcător de minuni. Viața lui Arsenie Boca; 2019 -- Regele și Duduia. Carol II și Elena Lupescu dincolo de bârfe și clișee; 2020 -- Seducătorul domn Nae. Viața lui Nae Ionescu; 2021 -- Nepovestitele iubiri. 7 minibiografii sentimentale; 2022 - Singur. Viața lui Mihai Sebastian; 2023 - Englezul din Gara de Nord. După o poveste adevărată (roman)
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Marcel Iureș is a Romanian actor. He is one of Romania's most acclaimed stage and film actors. He has acted in films and on stage both in Romania and internationally, and has played at least ten roles on Romanian and British television. His work includes voiceovers for Disney and computer games. Iureș is the president and a judge of the Anonimul International Film Festival and also the president of Ideo Ideis Festival.
George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies. He is currently considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time, alongside Titu Maiorescu and Eugen Lovinescu, and is one of the outstanding figures of Romanian literature in the 20th century.
Cristian Tudor Popescu is a Romanian journalist, essayist, engineer, short-story writer and political commentator. Author of science fiction stories during his youth, he also hosted talk shows for various television stations, and had contributions as a literary critic and translator.
Mirela Roznoveanu is a literary critic, writer, and journalist who has published novels, literary criticism, essays, and poetry. She was a noted dissident journalist during the turbulent period of communist Romania's late eighties.
Leonard Oprea is a Romanian novelist, poet, and essayist. In the late 1980s, he wrote two books of fiction that were banned by the Communist regime and gained him repute among dissidents. Following the 1989 Revolution, the books were published but did not attract significant notice during the political upheaval of the time. He left Romania for the United States in 1999, after which the pair of previously banned works was once again released. In the 2000s, he wrote the fictional series Theophil Magus, and by 2020 this series included 17 separate titles. Piero Scaruffi considers his work "Cele Nouă Învățături ale lui Theophil Magus despre Magia Transilvană/ The Nine Teachings Of Theophil Magus On Transylvanian Magic" (2000) among the ten best novels in the Romanian language.
Matei Alexe Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Andrei Oișteanu is a Romanian historian of religions and mentalities, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. Specialized in the history of religions and mentalities, he is also noted for his investigation of rituals and magic and his work in Jewish studies and the history of antisemitism. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he also became noted for his articles and essays on the Holocaust in Romania.
Carmen Tanase is a Romanian actress. After graduating The Drama and Film Institute from Bucharest, in 1984, she joined the company of "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theatre in Iaşi and then moved back to the capital city of Romania. Since 1990, she is a member of the Odeon Theatre company from Bucharest. As a student, she played in Dostoevsky's The Possessed, in John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday, in Butterflies, Butterflies by the Italian playwright Aldo Nicolaj etc. Following the fall of the Romanian communist regime, in 1989, she also involved herself in the independent artistic movements that flourished after these events. She toured the world with Radu Duda, the two of them playing in A Report to an Academy, the adaptation of a short story by Franz Kafka, directed by Cristina Iovita.
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Ileana Mălăncioiu is a contemporary Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, dissident, and activist. She has been a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy since 2013.
Laszlo Alexandru is a Romanian essayist, literary critic, literary historian, translator and journalist. He is an Italian teacher. He is editor of E-Leonardo cultural magazine and coordinator of the Italian collection at the "Ecou Transilvan" Publishing House. He is known for his Dante interpretation contributions in the university field in Romania and in Europe, in the Romanian culture and in the Italian culture. Also known in Israel for his cultural studies on the Holocaust. Since 2014, he is a member of the Romanian Writers' Union. His books have been published in Romania and in the Republic of Moldova. He won the Romanian Writers' 2020 Special Award for Lectura lui Dante. Infernul; Purgatoriul; Paradisul.
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