Doina
Ruști

Ileana Marin examines the creative power of wandering in the city of Bucharest through a selection of Romanian literary works

Doina Ruști și alți scriitori contemporani

He was the Colossus, the Pillar, the Giant, the Pole, and eventually he became, simply, Gigiancu of the Olari slums.

A very interesting and brilliant historical fantasy

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 ...

Coming soon to the London Book Fair 5-8 April 2022

The Book of Perilous Dishes, review

A pleasant dialogue with Alyse MGRDICHIAN: she asked me and I told (a little) about the Phanariots

My translation of the first chapter from Doina Ruști's novel "The Ghost in the Mill" is published in the literary journal "Your Impossible Voice." The story begins with a bizarre discovery: Adela Nicolescu happens ...

In Book Brunch

It all reminds me of a movie that years ago seemed nothing more than a cheap comedy: Idiocracy (Mike Judge). Now it’s like we’re all playing a part in this very film.

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

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

The novel HOMERIC

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)

About what do you think is this book? It's the book of stone heads? It's a volume of stories? Or lyrics? In any case, It's a fresh, 400-page book.

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.

Literatură Lu Xun Literature Academy

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 3rd EU-China International Literary Festival will bring leading writers from all across the European Union to China in a celebration of books, writers and readers. European and Chinese writers will gather to showcase their ...

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

A chronicle in the Chilean daily El Mercurio, signed by Pedro Gandolfo, considered unanimously the most demanding and refined chronicler in Santiago de Chille.

A review in "La Jornada"

Books sold on Amazon

A discussion about novel ZOGRU by Doina Ruști to Santiago de Chile, in the "Pablo Neruda House"

The novel Das Phantom in der Mühle by Doina Ruști in Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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 ...

A Romanian event at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Das Phantom in der Mühle the German translation of the novel The Ghost in the Mill by Doina Rusti

Bucharest, 1798, occult cookbook.

Bucharest, 1798, occult cookbook.

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, ...

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.

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.

Talking with Stelian Țurlea about Patru bărbați plus Aurelius

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

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 ...