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The fourth edition, celebrating creations from 2024, was held at the Liviu Ciulei Hall of the Bulandra Theatre — and I was proud to be among the organizers.

News.ro about Romanian Novelist Doina Ruști and her recent novel.

Radu Afrim’s recent premiere is titled TEATRO LÚCIDO LA MALUL INFINITULUI and is performed at the State Theatre of Constanța. The production is a typically Afrimian fantasy, which also incorporates three contemporary short stories: *Visit to a ...

Exploring the life, music, and romance of an unforgettable artist through history and fiction.

Opinions, music, lecture. Old Romanian times.

One of the best-selling books. Along side Andrei Plesu, Mircea Cartarescu, Doina Rusti was among the best-selling writers. A TVR video, signed by Mirela Nagat

Doina Ruști participated in the London Book Fair 2022 with the launch of the English edition of The Book of Perilous Dishes. Published by Neem Tree Press and translated by James Ch. Brown, the novel ...

Each year, Mantua gathers some of the most visible voices of contemporary literature, becoming one of Europe’s most influential literary festivals. In 2021, Doina Ruști was invited for the first time to take part in ...

The European Union organizes an annual major literature festival in China. The third edition took place in the former Canton area (Guangzhou and Shenzhen) between November 18 and 26. Nine European countries participated, including Romania, ...

Doina Ruști at the Gavoi Literary Festival in Sardinia, one of Europe’s most beautiful literary events, presenting her novels L’Omino Rosso and The Phanariot Manuscript. Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute and covered by major ...

Romanian writer Doina Ruști was among the authors invited to the Leipzig International Book Fair, where Romania was Guest of Honour, and where the German translation of her novel The Phantom in the Mill was presented ...

The launch of the German edition of the novel The Ghost in the Mill took place during the 2017 Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s most important book fair, within an international context dedicated to freedom of expression. ...

Four days in which many seemingly unrelated things blend together: books, Turks, markets, ghosts, bargains, new robots, and a touch of baklava. Plus the fair itself.

The article Promotion of the series ‘Effugium’, from the Dukagjini Publishing House (Nov 6, 2025) mentions my novel The Phanariot Manuscript, included in the Effugium European collection launched by Dukagjini Publishing House (Kosovo).

An international reader reflects on the immersive experience of The Book of Perilous Dishes, praising its rich historical context, vivid magical elements, and fast-paced narrative. From the translator’s note and glossary to the haunting finale, ...

An excerpt from The Ghost in the Mill was published in the American literary magazine Your Impossible Voice. Translated by Ileana Marin, the text explores a disquieting childhood universe where rooms dissolve, objects vanish, and strange presences ...

In April 2021, Doina Ruști was the featured author of the literary series I Mercoledì Letterari, organized by the Accademia di Romania in Rome in partnership with Sandro Teti Editore, on the occasion of the ...

The Phanariot Manuscript by Romanian author Doina Ruști, translated by Creative Europe.

Doina Ruști’s novel The Little Red Man was reissued in Italy in 2021 by Sandro Teti Editore (Rome), seventeen years after its original Romanian publication and nearly a decade after its first Italian edition. Translated by ...

UK independent publisher Neem Tree Press has secured a major grant from the Romanian Cultural Institute for the English-language publication of The Book of Perilous Dishes by Romanian novelist Doina Ruști. Set in Bucharest in 1798, the novel ...

Doina Ruști was invited to Spain for two literary events dedicated to her novel Mâța Vinerii, recently published in Spanish as La gata del viernes. The program included an event in Madrid and a UNESCO reading ...

An excerpt from The Book of Perilous Dishes (originally published in Romanian as Mâța Vinerii) has been included in a Chinese anthology devoted to poets’ elixirs, pleasures, and the intimate links between poetry and excess.

Romanian writer Doina Ruști was invited to take part in the International Writing Program organized by the Chinese Writers Association, a month-long literary residency held in Beijing and Sichuan, bringing together authors from ten countries. ...

Doina Ruști’s novel Zogru continues to attract international critical attention. A new review by Pedro Gandolfo has been published today in El Mercurio, one of Chile’s most influential liberal daily newspapers.

A recent review of Doina Ruști’s novel Lizoanca has appeared in the Mexican daily La Jornada, highlighting the book’s distinctive narrative style and its powerful fusion of communist-era memory with high-quality fiction.

Recently translated into Spanish and launched in Santiago de Chile, Zogru by Doina Ruști has received notable critical attention, including a review published in the Chilean daily Las Últimas Noticias.

The novel Lizoanca at the Age of Eleven was included among the top ten best novels published in Hungary in 2015.

Cristian story was published în the book "Cămașa în carouri” (The checkered shirt and 10 other episodes from Bucharest), Polirom, 2010.

Reading from "Lizoanca" (translated by Jan Cornelius), Ed Horlemann, Berlin An event organized by Senator Susanne Kastner ] and Deutsch-Rumänisches Forum. With the support of the Embassy of Romania, Berlin.

L’omino rosso (Nikita Editore, 2012, Firenze) de Doina Ruști

An article published in the Italian daily Il Libero during the 2012 Turin International Book Fair compares Lizoanca at Eleven to Albert Camus’s The Plague and places Doina Ruști alongside Eastern European writers such as Georgi Gospodinov, highlighting the novel’s ...

The strange stories from Cărtărescu’s Nostalgia, Patapievici’s vision of Dante’s world, and the adventures of Zogru, the protagonist of my eponymous novel, were the main subjects of discussion.

Zogru waited bored on a shelf, patiently expecting his turn. I felt sorry that he had lost his enthusiasm; I empathized with him. A Parisian Saturday evening, surrounded by a sea of people—you can imagine ...

Romanian novelist Doina Ruști recounts a series of literary events in France surrounding the French publication of her novel Zogru. Moving between Paris, Manosque, and Marseille, the essay blends memoir, literary reflection, and magical realism, ...

A very interesting and brilliant historical fantasy

An international literary event at Circolo dei Lettori (Turin) focused on The Little Red Man, Doina Ruști’s novel about digital identity and virtual reality, presented in its Italian translation by Roberto Merlo. Supported by major ...

An important return to Rome brings The Little Red Man—Doina Ruști’s debut novel—back into the European spotlight, framed by a landmark Italian critical interpretation that defines the novel as a pioneering exploration of digital adventure, ...

Plovdiv (with Vasilka Alexova & [Bojidar Kuncev)] [Torino, 2010 (with Dan Lungu, Adrian Babeți, Radu Pavel Gheo)] [ Granada, 2012] Torino, 2012 (with Marco Dotti, Roberto Merlo) Berlin, 2013 (with Gabriela Admeșteanu, Jan Cornelius) Leipzig, ...

A critical essay on The Ghost in the Mill (read together with novels by Cărtărescu and Bogdan Popescu), showing how ghosts, apocalypse, and magical realism mythically rewrite late communism and depict post-communist communities as devitalised, haunted ...

Romanian Writers. Polirom. 2006-2017

As she completes the novel Nas de bulgar, the sequel to Ferenike, Doina Ruști reflects on identity, love, and Balkan heritage—moving from a memorable encounter with an American writer to the personal history that underlies her ...

The novel Fantoma din moară (The Ghost in the Mill) is examined in The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters (Routledge, New York) as a form of Eastern European neo-Gothic associated with late postmodernism. This critical classification ...

A critical essay on The Ghost in the Mill (read together with novels by Cărtărescu and Bogdan Popescu), showing how ghosts, apocalypse, and magical realism mythically rewrite late communism and depict post-communist communities as devitalised, haunted ...

A brief encounter at the fair, with many photos.

The Romanian curriculum calls for solid foundations: a chronological approach, literary history, and clear cultural reference points.

Since mid-October, I’ve travelled across schools, cities, book fairs and libraries with Platanos, Ferenike and Sisinel by my side. I met hundreds of students and teachers — from Saint Sava, Cervantes, the German College and Jean Monnet, ...

The fourth edition, celebrating creations from 2024, was held at the Liviu Ciulei Hall of the Bulandra Theatre — and I was proud to be among the organizers.

What did we talk about? About the ending of the novel: why the man of snow, why Sisinel’s dream?

There’s something both restless and tender about writers born beneath the snow. February seems to bind them through a pale light and a constant curiosity — half dream, half clarity. This “aquatic kinship” came alive ...

The article Promotion of the series ‘Effugium’, from the Dukagjini Publishing House (Nov 6, 2025) mentions my novel The Phanariot Manuscript, included in the Effugium European collection launched by Dukagjini Publishing House (Kosovo).

Historia Hybridarum (The History of Hybrids), “the fabulous chronicle of beings half-human, half something else—animals, insects, or plants.”

Doina Ruști at the Gavoi Literary Festival in Sardinia, one of Europe’s most beautiful literary events, presenting her novels L’Omino Rosso and The Phanariot Manuscript. Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute and covered by major ...

News.ro about Romanian Novelist Doina Ruști and her recent novel.

The event, part of the Bucharest Days, will take place on September 20, at 6 p.m., at Suțu Palace (MMB), 2 IC Brătianu Blvd., Bucharest.

The Association of Fiction Creators hosted the latest edition of the Ficțiunea Awards at the Filipescu Cesianu House in Bucharest. The event celebrated hybrid art, participation, and aesthetic change, bringing together writers, theatre directors, filmmakers, and ...

Radu Afrim’s recent premiere is titled TEATRO LÚCIDO LA MALUL INFINITULUI and is performed at the State Theatre of Constanța. The production is a typically Afrimian fantasy, which also incorporates three contemporary short stories: *Visit to a ...

Ileana Marin interviewing Doina Ruști

The Phanariot Manuscript by Romanian author Doina Ruști, translated by Creative Europe.

An international academic volume examines Doina Ruști’s novels The Little Red Man, Occult Beds, and Friday’s Cat, focusing on the relationship between literature and the city within a university research project developed in Brussels.

The Book of Perilous Dishes by Doina Ruști was featured in a major international blog tour, organized by The Write Reads in association with Neem Tree Press. Over several days, dozens of literary blogs and bookstagram accounts across the English-speaking world ...

A review by Mircea Morariu published in HotNews reads The Depraved Man of Gorgani as a Phanariot Bucharest ruled by fear, plague, and sudden death, where excess and desire become strategies of survival.

Depravatul din Gorgani: Another 52 Oddities (LITERA, 2023) has sparked a wide series of meetings with readers—across bookstores, schools, universities, and cultural institutions in Romania and abroad. The collection expands Doina Ruști’s Phanariot universe through ...

Doina Ruști’s novel Zogru is featured at the Festival du Livre de Paris, in an event dedicated to contemporary Romanian literature, alongside its French translator Florica Courriol and journalist Iulia Badea-Guéritée.

The Book of Perilous Dishes, de Doina Ruști, a fost recomandată de cititorii comunității Translated Gems (Coreea de Sud), într-o selecție Instagram dedicată literaturii traduse.

A very interesting and brilliant historical fantasy

Romanian novelist Doina Ruști recounts a series of literary events in France surrounding the French publication of her novel Zogru. Moving between Paris, Manosque, and Marseille, the essay blends memoir, literary reflection, and magical realism, ...

The Book of Perilous Dishes, review

An international literary event at Circolo dei Lettori (Turin) focused on The Little Red Man, Doina Ruști’s novel about digital identity and virtual reality, presented in its Italian translation by Roberto Merlo. Supported by major ...

Each year, Mantua gathers some of the most visible voices of contemporary literature, becoming one of Europe’s most influential literary festivals. In 2021, Doina Ruști was invited for the first time to take part in ...

This text, excerpted from a doctoral dissertation defended in 2023 and published as a volume in 2025, offers a comprehensive and coherent reading of the novel The Red Little Man, regarded by its author as ...

An excerpt from The Ghost in the Mill was published in the American literary magazine Your Impossible Voice. Translated by Ileana Marin, the text explores a disquieting childhood universe where rooms dissolve, objects vanish, and strange presences ...

In April 2021, Doina Ruști was the featured author of the literary series I Mercoledì Letterari, organized by the Accademia di Romania in Rome in partnership with Sandro Teti Editore, on the occasion of the ...

Doina Ruști’s novel The Little Red Man was reissued in Italy in 2021 by Sandro Teti Editore (Rome), seventeen years after its original Romanian publication and nearly a decade after its first Italian edition. Translated by ...

UK independent publisher Neem Tree Press has secured a major grant from the Romanian Cultural Institute for the English-language publication of The Book of Perilous Dishes by Romanian novelist Doina Ruști. Set in Bucharest in 1798, the novel ...

This excerpt comes from a mythological Christmas tale originally published in Libertatea. Drawing on ancient solstice rituals and Romanian folklore, the text evokes the rebirth of light and the figure of Consânzeana, guardian of the ...

Doina Ruști was invited to Spain for two literary events dedicated to her novel Mâța Vinerii, recently published in Spanish as La gata del viernes. The program included an event in Madrid and a UNESCO reading ...

An excerpt from The Book of Perilous Dishes (originally published in Romanian as Mâța Vinerii) has been included in a Chinese anthology devoted to poets’ elixirs, pleasures, and the intimate links between poetry and excess.

Romanian writer Doina Ruști was invited to take part in the International Writing Program organized by the Chinese Writers Association, a month-long literary residency held in Beijing and Sichuan, bringing together authors from ten countries. ...

Creative Writing: about author like character. Bucharest University video

The European Union organizes an annual major literature festival in China. The third edition took place in the former Canton area (Guangzhou and Shenzhen) between November 18 and 26. Nine European countries participated, including Romania, ...

The novel The Book of Perilous Dishes (Romanian title: Mata Vinerii) recently appeared at the Orpheusz Publishing House (Budapest), translated by Szenkovics Eniko. In Hungarian the title of the novel is Arto receptek konyve . ...

Doina Ruști’s novel Zogru continues to attract international critical attention. A new review by Pedro Gandolfo has been published today in El Mercurio, one of Chile’s most influential liberal daily newspapers.

A recent review of Doina Ruști’s novel Lizoanca has appeared in the Mexican daily La Jornada, highlighting the book’s distinctive narrative style and its powerful fusion of communist-era memory with high-quality fiction.

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Recently translated into Spanish and launched in Santiago de Chile, Zogru by Doina Ruști has received notable critical attention, including a review published in the Chilean daily Las Últimas Noticias.

Doina Ruști &​ Ioana Pârvulescu in the Odobescu Amphitheatre, at the Faculty of Letters

Romanian Writers. Polirom. 2006-2017

The novel Lizoanca at the Age of Eleven was included among the top ten best novels published in Hungary in 2015.

Cristian story was published în the book "Cămașa în carouri” (The checkered shirt and 10 other episodes from Bucharest), Polirom, 2010.

An article published in the Italian daily Il Libero during the 2012 Turin International Book Fair compares Lizoanca at Eleven to Albert Camus’s The Plague and places Doina Ruști alongside Eastern European writers such as Georgi Gospodinov, highlighting the novel’s ...

Doina Ruști walking through Bucharest, retracing the paths of her characters from The Checkered Shirt (Polirom, 2010), together with the translators invited by the Romanian Cultural Institute: Anja Arsić, Elena Borrás, Timea Daróczi, Irina Djuran, Piotr Fiederowicz, ...