Doina
Ruști

A conversation about Zavaidoc, the year 1923, and interwar Bucharest, filmed as a journey through today’s city—where the memory of balls, passions, and an enigmatic crime still lingers.

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.

I was never interested in the father–daughter relationship; I was interested in the people who are part of my adventure.

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, ...

Exclusive interview with Romanian novelist Doina Ruști in Harf Magazine, Issue 100 — an in-depth conversation on mythology, identity, memory, and the fantastic. The interview explores the legacy of Dracula in Western consciousness, Romanian mythological ...

My first letter, my first book: how I began to write and to read.

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 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.

My Phanariot Trilogy offers a more elaborate image of Bucharest, focusing on its continuous transformations, where enduring legacies remain essential. The Phanariot Manuscript, The Book of Perilous Dishes, and Homeric are the three novels dedicated to historical Bucharest

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 eagle is one of the essential archetypes of the Mediterranean world, and for Romanians it may be regarded as a totem with archaic roots.

The eagle is one of the essential archetypes of the Mediterranean world, and for Romanians it may be regarded as a totem with archaic roots.

Formicosus! The ant liqueur. It’s a potion that was used until recently throughout the entire Europe, against fevers (in fact, ants are still used in modern pharmaceuticals). In my novel, ant liqueur is for lunatics ...

Out of the weeds suddenly rose a figure—an old woman of sorts, in rags, with disheveled hair and a necklace of gold around her neck

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 ...

But in this one picture, he’s among others, kind of off to the side, holding some papers in his hand, glasses slipping slightly down his nose, standing near a 1950s truck. I see him in ...

In my book A Dictionary of Symbols in the Work of Mircea Eliade (Dicționar de simboluri din opera lui Mircea Eliade, 1997), I dedicated an entire entry to the symbolism of Sânziene. This solstitial feast is ...

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

In this in-depth interview, Doina Ruști reflects on Ferenike as a confessional yet rigorously constructed novel, exploring memory, violence, history, and personal mythology. She discusses the transformation of lived experience into fiction, the role of affective ...

Set in Phanariot Bucharest, this fictional tale unfolds from a forgotten marginal note and traces the encounter between a master embroiderer and the mysterious mărmănjici—tiny April spirits said to alter dreams and colors. Blending folklore, ...

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.

he true story of Doctor Carniol, a character from Zavaidoc in the Year of Love, begins on Calea Moșilor and ends in journalism textbooks, as a notorious case of one of Bucharest’s most enigmatic crimes. ...

The Corpse revisits a forgotten murder in Bucharest in 1923, following the discovery of a young woman’s body near the Decebal Mill. Blending archival detail with imaginative reconstruction, the story traces the girl’s final hours ...

Bucharest, 1924. On Paris Street, a shoe shop, an obsession, and a disappearance recorded in a document of the time.

București: One day in 1928, a bizarre scandal broke out—one that changed several lives. .

A dialogue about language as it is spoken online, on the street, and in literature. The conversation begins casually, over tea on Calea Victoriei, with a simple but provocative question: what slogan would one write ...

Elisabeta Boulevard reconstructs a cinematic urban legend set in interwar Bucharest. After the early death of a famous actor and the disappearance of the film documenting his funeral, his image survives as a haunting presence. ...

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 ...

Set in interwar Bucharest, Mitiță, the Perfumer reconstructs an urban legend centered on a flamboyant perfumer whose linden-based fragrances become a secret map of desire. Through three perfumes—green, purple, and red—Mitiță classifies women, studies love, and ...

On the church steps, at noon, when a small wing descends from the sky—what some call inspiration, others grace, and most revelation.

A wide-ranging interview about literature, memory, and festive life in Bucharest, from communism to the Phanariot era. Doina Ruști reflects on The Ghost in the Mill, Easter under dictatorship, the mythical and social dimensions of ...

Set between history and imagination, this urban myth traces the forgotten cult of a cat goddess and its transformation into one of Europe’s most persistent superstitions. Through the story of Myrrhina, a priestess in exile, ...

In this personal essay, the author explores the dark folklore surrounding Tuesday, personified in Romanian tradition as Saint Tuesday (Marțisara), a cruel and punitive figure rooted in ancient myth. Blending etymology, legend, and reflection, the ...

Set in old Bucharest, The Map of Debauchery follows Elina, the wife of a master hat-maker, whose secret encounters redraw the city’s hidden geography. From the overgrown grounds behind Saint Sava Church to an inn and ...

Set in old Bucharest, this urban legend revisits the night of March 9, when cats are said to gather and one among them becomes a woman. Blending folklore, desire, and ambiguity, the story follows a ...

Originally published in Adevărul in February 2024, this story is inspired by an authentic seventeenth-century recipe for a magical wine, sold in Bucharest during a winter that altered the city forever.

This man, whose story I want to tell today, was well traveled and well tried. He had walked the roads to Istanbul and to Vienna, where he bought himself a tall hat, shaped like a ...

A seductive man from old Bucharest owes his irresistible charm not to himself, but to a mysterious pair of trousers woven with a trapped spirit of sympathy. When the trousers are lost, so is his ...

In Phanariot-era Bucharest, a monk cultivates a miraculous flower said to bloom only on Christmas Day. Drawn by hope and desire, a fritter seller secretly enters the greenhouse at midnight and witnesses a strange, intimate ...

In 1702 Bucharest, a sleepless woman baking pumpkin pies unwittingly attracts Murta, the ancient spirit of dreams. As her night-long cooking floods the city with visions, ordinary lives unravel: secrets are revealed, crimes exposed, destinies ...

A reflective essay on moral decay, opportunism, and institutional failure, this text argues that survival in times of ethical collapse depends on trust in the individual, selective solidarity, and the courage to ignore irreparable systems. ...

A sharp civic confession exposing nepotism, conflicts of interest, and ethical erosion within Romania’s cultural funding institutions. The author challenges the normalization of family-based advantages and argues that public money and cultural promotion must be ...

This schoolmaster had just turned twenty-six and was worrying about his future. He taught at Colțea, but most of his income came from Ioniță the butler.

Un personaj de roman continuă să-și îmbogățească biografia dincolo de carte, printr-un proces amplu de fetișuri și defetișări. Nu veniți să ne jucăm puțin?

A Brâncovenesc recipe becomes the trace of a silent desire, revealing how jealousy and repression turned snails—from everyday food into a cultural taboo.

In this extensive interview published by LiterNet, Doina Ruști reflects on her life, work, and intellectual formation, tracing the path from a childhood marked by family memory and early trauma to a literary career shaped ...

A marginal note discovered in an old book reveals the story of a legendary sleep elixir circulating in late-18th-century Bucharest. Written by a young apprentice who secretly steals a miraculous recipe from his master, the ...

More than fifty short films created by high school students across Romania reinterpret Occult Beds through cinema. Far from superficial adaptations, these works reveal deep, intelligent readings of the novel, preserving its narrative core, atmosphere, and ...

A fantastical tale set in 18th-century Bucharest, about a tailor guided by a prophetic cricket living in his ear. Success, seduction, and excess lead to his spectacular downfall, leaving behind mysterious talismans scattered across the ...

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 ...

A dark eighteenth-century tale about obsession, superstition, and the absolute devotion to a single book. When a furrier curses his beloved volume to protect it from theft, an Enlightenment-minded apprentice dares to challenge the curse—only ...

Even the long line of defeated, humble characters produced by nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature serves less to affirm the rise of the weak than to magnify the triumph of the strong. Figures such as Gogol’s ...

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 ...

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.

After a failed courtship caused by a fatal misunderstanding, Tudorachi reads a handwritten version of The War of Troy and discovers in Helen’s infidelity a mirror of his own disappointment. His bitter marginal note turns a ...

Three people, three dreams, and an ancient recipe.

An anecdote from 1716 recounts how Nicolae Mavrocordat, newly arrived in Bucharest, was tricked on April Fool’s Day into fleeing the city, all because palace servants needed time to procure his favorite dish: crayfish fritters. ...

A fantastical tale set in 18th-century Bucharest, Liver in Caul explores culinary art, imagination, and the cost of denying one’s true calling. When a magical mishap turns a nobleman’s ears into sprouting wings, the truth about ...

Saveta is suddenly seized by a desire whose roots reach deep into her childhood, when she learned—without anyone ever saying it outright—that being a girl meant counting for less. In a family that did not ...

An 18th-century tale of forbidden knowledge, curiosity, and consequence. When an apprentice healer secretly tastes a mysterious juniper elixir, her life veers into slavery, loss, and obsession. A darkly ironic legend about secrets withheld, destinies ...

A gifted clerk, a desperate fisherman, and a legendary dish intersect in Phanariot Bucharest, where refined pleasure and random violence collide in a single, fatal evening.

He was not drawn by the place itself, nor did he question the eye on the roof or the palpitations of its divine eyelid. What enchanted him was something else entirely. From the chimney, from ...

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.

Lila the Healer, a woman gifted with extraordinary powers, arrives in Iași one summer and is drawn into the circle of power and violence. As she witnesses extreme events, she gradually loses both her sight ...

A very interesting and brilliant historical fantasy

The laundress stepped into the street and took a few steps toward Lipscani Square. Bucharest was lit by a handful of lanterns, while shadows of carriages and people drifted across the walls. The life of ...

In this interview, Doina Ruști reflects on reading as a form of refuge, the formative impact of Balzac, and the discipline imposed by classical studies. She traces the origins of her method—chronology, synthesis, and the ...

Beneath his anteriu, he wore translucent stockings, followed by fine shalwar trousers made of Maltese silk.

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 rare pineapple ordered by a noble Bucharest family triggers an unexpected obsession in a servant who secretly tastes the fruit. His fleeting encounter with an exotic flavor alters the course of his life, turning ...

Framed as an archival account from eighteenth-century Bucharest, this fictional urban legend follows the disappearance of a ring entrusted to a celebrated dyer. Suspected, punished, and ruined without proof, the woman survives on the margins ...

Sometime in the early 1700s, there lived in Bucharest a cook with a great passion for sweets. He knew how to make many delicacies, and among his inventions was a small cake he named zarnacadea. ...

That café, where drunken voices murmured, stood opposite the houses of Petrache Sticlaru, a renowned healer who took pain away with his bare hands and with six small “glass vessels,” each no bigger than a ...

A freed lăutar, once a gifted bagpiper, roams the roads carried by his music and his newly gained freedom. As his art decays into a piercing scream, the city of Bucharest is seized by an ...

After the disappearance of the pharmacist Marco, a new tenant moves into the house on Batiște Street: Iane, a young man trained in Pavia and obsessed with finding a cure for sadness. His highly sought-after ...

An ancient mulberry tree in Bucharest, linked by legend to the name of Brâncoveanu, has long been surrounded by urban superstition. Stories of enchanted fruit, goblins, and a defiant Venetian pharmacist have turned the tree ...

I am a Latinist, and that is why I used elements from peripheral Latin mythology in my book. Sator was a generic name for the supreme creator of the world, and was only rarely used ...

Set in Bucharest in 1798, this fictional urban legend recounts the arrival of a young monk sent to protect the city from a locust invasion by carrying sacred relics.

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 ...

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, ...

The Book of Perilous Dishes, review

A teleleică was shameless enough to expose secrets, stir scandal, and turn gossip into spectacle. Once an honorable term designating a public orator or rhetorical messenger, the word gradually came to signify vulgar, unscrupulous women. This ...

In 1796, a woman lived in Bucharest, the widow of a captain—hence she was known as the Captain’s Widow. As imposing and combative as she was, always ready to file petitions and put anyone in ...

The winter holidays have roots far older than Christianity, reaching back to the solstice, fire rituals, and the magical interval when the world pauses and begins again. Between etymology and legend, this New Year’s story ...

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 ...

Lucache, a beardless man who has also begun to go bald, lacks the mythical powers and storytelling grandeur of the legendary spân; gentle and unambitious, he is defined instead by a single, enduring passion—his love ...

Scatterbrained fellows you couldn’t rely on, whose word was worth nothing. Insurgents, traitors, idlers — yet certainly not without charm.

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, ...

In Romanian, the verb to brand (a înfiera) survived centuries of violence, humiliation, and political spectacle. This urban legend traces its origin to a real man from 17th-century Wallachia — Iașca, a conspirator punished not by ...

This text is based on an interview originally published by SHELF Media Group (UK) in 2021. The original publication appeared in a digital magazine format that is not easily accessible to readers or search engines. ...

In February 1795, a provincial officer and his daughter arrive at the Metropolitan Church to settle a scandal. A broken promise of marriage, a rival lover of lower rank, and an invisible third party — ...

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 ...

In this wide-ranging interview for Forbes, Romanian novelist Doina Ruști reflects on storytelling as instinct, the future of reading, screenwriting, video games, and why stories survive even as authors disappear.

Set in Bucharest in 1794, this story follows Toia, a young enslaved man known for his striking hat and musical talent, who lives freely for five years alongside Tranca, a woman from the Pantelimon district. ...

In the summer of 1782, a student from Saint Sava School poisons his Greek teacher after months of humiliation and obsession. Set in the fragrant, turbulent Bucharest of the late 18th century, this urban legend ...

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 ...

In a late-eighteenth-century monastery near Bucharest, a gifted Roma musician is killed during what should have been a holy celebration. Preserved in an archival document from 1794, the case reveals a darker truth: that art ...

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 ...

A charismatic captain returns from war trailing scandal, women, and rumors of a saint’s miraculous hand—an object said to open locks and bend fate. A learned priest, haunted by confessions and jealousy, tries to seize ...

A court servant’s arrogance, a ruined girl, and a staged punishment lead to a fatal ending. This true Phanariot case exposes how vanity, class privilege, and performative justice collide—leaving mercy to chance and death to ...

A true 18th-century case: a woman abandoned after a summer affair fights for justice under Phanariot law. Love, coercion, legal loopholes, and male storytelling turn a private tragedy into public legend.

Written at the intersection of fiction, literary theory, and cultural diagnosis, this text gathers selected reflections by Doina Ruști on the making of Occult Beds, the role of the scapegoat character, the crisis of contemporary ...

Perfumes tell me their stories at length, placing me in contact with countless hidden histories. An interview by Claudiu Sfirschi-Lăudat

In this interview originally published by Jurnalul Național, Romanian novelist Doina Ruști reflects on the real memories, urban myths, and symbolic objects that shaped her novel Occult Beds. From a labyrinthine childhood house with a room full of ...

A pandemic-era Christmas tale drawn from late eighteenth-century documents: a young itinerant doctor, a blind woman who loves books, and the bureaucratic choreography that turns a medical miracle into public truth.

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 ...

A fragment from an 18th-century Wallachian archive turns a small, yellow silk umbrella into the silent witness of crime, disease, and fatal temptation. A story about objects that outlive their owners—and carry their misfortune with ...

A Saint Andrew’s Eve story from 1793 Bucharest: a thirteen-year-old girl, suspended between slavery and freedom, enters a household on a night when spirits roam and destinies quietly shift.

At the end of the eighteenth century, Bucharest was a city of mud, epidemics, hurried lives, and fragile fortunes. From a probate file dated 1794 emerges the story of an itinerant doctor, his restless household, ...

A sealed room, a plague victim, and dozens of chests filled with beads, lace, and forgotten goods. From a bureaucratic report emerges the quiet tragedy of a man who guarded other people’s possessions—and brought death ...

A former slave, abandoned by her husband, confronts betrayal, abduction, and social ruin—only to turn the law to her advantage. A late-eighteenth-century story of female intelligence, negotiated justice, and survival after slavery.

18th century. A maker of painted bowls, a harsh winter, and a dream of love.

A young widow with money, desire, and freedom becomes a public danger. Labeled desfrânată—“wanton”—by her contemporaries, Băjeasca is punished not for a crime, but for stepping outside the narrow boundaries imposed on women. Based on ...

In late-18th-century Bucharest, breaking a marriage promise was not a private matter but a public offense. This story, reconstructed from court records, follows a man who swore a sacred oath—and then withdrew it. The girl ...

A cultural essay about midsummer fairs, vegetal rituals, fairies whose names must not be spoken, and how legends are born at the intersection of desire, fear, and collective imagination—moving from folklore to a documented case ...

A cultural essay starting from a nineteenth-century painting and unfolding into a story about fairs, vagabond monks, art, marginal lives, and the uneasy relationship between freedom and social control in premodern Eastern Europe.

“Everything reminds me of a film that years ago seemed nothing more than a cheap comedy: Idiocracy. Now we’re all acting in it.” Doina Ruști, interview at the Mantua Festival *Interview recorded by Alex De ...

Escape from Istanbul and a Finger on a Page A document-based narrative about adoption, slavery, and moral debt, centered on Paraschiva—a former enslaved woman—and Gheorma, the child she brought from Istanbul, who would later become ...

An interview in ARCS Projects, University of Washington, Seattle, by Ileana Marin

A personal and archival essay about handwriting, memory, and power, built around a seventeenth-century document that records the purchase of a woman—and the first appearance of Gheorma, the man who would later become one of ...

It sounds like a line of poetry. You read it and you do not dare ask what it means. The moment questions begin, poetry fades — like a lump of limestone over which water has ...

Once upon a time there was a ravishingly beautiful woman, who liked two things above all else: roaming the world and loving men.

In 2003, while trying to build my first website and struggling with the terror of my own photographic image, I walked into Suțu Palace in Bucharest. There, I encountered a nineteenth-century merchant whose painted portrait ...

The novel HOMERIC

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 ...

In this landmark interview published in Jurnalul Național, Doina Ruști speaks about the contemporary crisis of identity, the relationship between model and imitation, love and literature, and Bucharest as a chosen city. The dialogue offers ...

From lucky charms kept in pockets to plants believed to confuse demons, this story traces the ancient logic of protection—where love, blood, and magic turn into leaves and flowers meant to be carried close to ...

Opinions, music, lecture. Old Romanian times.

The name, the repeated and the forgotten word are three sintems and each of them refers to an important aspect of the symbolic communication. Three Brothers Serving the Red Man, an old Romanian story, found ...

Sometimes, I'm passing alongside cars, on crowded streets, beside people who do not see me, and somewhere, in the shady areas of the city, I hear a voice coming from the tumultuous heart of Homeric ...

The Resistance of Villains Examples of history: a thief, a crazy prince and a great poet (in Adevărul)

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.

First, I told Corina Dobre about what fascinated me in China - in Correspondent show, TVRi: the thirst of literature, literary encounters and many trips across a country as a continent. First impressions, which the ...

La festivalul licorilor scriitoricești, în orașul rachiului de orez si la Marele Zid. Cam asa s-a încheiat călătoria mea în China.

Little fairies, born of Jupiter's eyes, the Joimaritze are bright and cruel, and they know the way of the dead and hate the melancholy.

Books will no longer be sold, they will be placed together in a virtual library where people will follow a word, which will subsequently lead them to the delightful core of the great text. No ...

About Beijing & writers

Scenes of love are not easy to write. Hypocritically, the young writer avoids, under the very pretentious pretext, that physical love should not be narrated. It is true that you can quickly become stupid, but ...

The character at the edge of the novel, figurative, ephemeral but yet memorable in many cases!

About Beijing.

About Beijing

About Beijing.

Invited to the Lu Xun Academy of Literature in Beijing, writer Doina Ruști kept a seven-part journal during her residency in China. First published as weekly dispatches in Libertatea, these texts retrace a literary experience ...

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. ...

One month in China , at the Beijing Literature Academy With my novel Mîța Vinerii/ The Book of Perilous Dishes

Creative Writing: about author like character. Bucharest University video

A photograph of my friend Eugen Negrici

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

Who are my heroes, what do they look like, what role do they have in the novel? Each character expresses a connection, one of those meetings, during which two people (myself and the character) lived ...

Who are my heroes, what do they look like, what role do they have in the novel? Each character expresses a connection, one of those meetings, during which two people (myself and the character) lived ...

About writing & fiction.

Writing & translation.

Hyperlitaratura top by CARLA-FRANCESCA SCHOPPEL

About writing, reading, fiction. And about a devil in love.

About writing, deed and fiction.

About writing, deed and fiction. CRU, Bucharest University

About The 3rd EU-China International Literary Festival , to “Convietuiri”, Romanian TVR1: Camelia Vacaru in dialogue with Doina Ruști.

About books & fabulous trips with Răzvan Ursuleanu

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 . ...

First projection: The History Museum of Bucharest, at Thursday's meetings, organized by Cătălin D. Constantin

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.

Books sold on Amazon

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.

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 ...

A literary event: the second edition of the novel "The Ghost of the Mill" The product of a powerful original prose writer, a rara avis in post communist Romanian literature, The Ghost in the Mill ...

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. ...

Bucharest, 1798, occult cookbook.

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

Bucharest, 1798, occult cookbook.

Bucharest, 1798, occult cookbook.

The Book of Perilous Dishes (Mâța Vinerii)

Bucharest, 1798, occult cookbook.

Romanian Writers. Polirom. 2006-2017

I think it is only natural that the narrative voice is female, since I am a woman. At the same time, I must confess that I think it is simplistic to write from a masculine ...

The great stories have already been told

To Book Star Festival, with Zarko Kujundjiski, Valentina Kostova, Ermis Lfazanovski, Alexandra Kaitozis.

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, ...

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

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.

It all started from a "nizam", an order given by prince Alexandru Moruzi, who wanted a fugitive valet found. It was from the year 1794. This document whetted my appetite, especially considering the fact that ...

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

Valuable writers are the ones you discover for yourself.

The review by Antonio J. Ubero, about the novel Lizoanca by Doina Ruști, in La Opinion de Murcia

The autumn meetings with Iași city I remember me the hopes of my younger years, crooked from Râpa Galbenă to Copou Hill.

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

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.

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 ...

Talking with Stelian Țurlea about Patru bărbați plus Aurelius

The incumbency of literature - review of the novel Four men plus Aurelius de Gabriela Gheorghișor

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, ...

One of my first life experiences is related to cat, to whose tail I hang a clothes peg. I swear I did not imagine it would hurt it; I was even convinced it would appreciate ...

About The Checkered Shirt and Other Ten Stories — Radio România Actualități, with Mihaela Helmis (Cămașa în carouri)