LidIulianCiocan1968

Prose writer, publicist and literary critic. Commentator of the Free Europe radio station. Born on April 6, 1968 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Published novels: Before Brezhnev Died (Polirom Publishing House, 2007; Czech edition at Dybbuk, 2009; English edition at Dalkey Archive Press, 2020; Serbian edition at Sluzbeni Glasnik, 2021); The Realm of Sasha Kozak (Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2011; Slovak edition at Kalligram, 2015; French edition at Belleville, 2017, Coup du Coeur Award at the Salon du Livre des Balkans); And in the morning the Russians will arrive (Polirom Publishing House, 2015; Czech edition at Dybbuk, 2021), The Queen of Hurts (Polirom Publishing House, 2018; French edition at Belleville, 2019; nomination for the Jean Monnet Prize, 2020; Bulgarian edition at the Foundation for Bulgarian literature , 2019; Czech edition at Dybbuk, 2020; Dutch edition at Pegasus, 2020). He has published prose in magazines and anthologies in the USA, Germany, China, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Belgium and Brazil. Invited to New York, the PEN World Voices festival (2011) and the Amsterdam Literature Night (2016).