Born 1954 · Romania
Observator cultural 2022 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“My Father in Isolation”
Cristian Teodorescu · 67 when first published
Novel · 440 pages · Love, Politics, Historical
AI-generated summary:In a small town in Dobruja during the darkest years of communism, a chemical engineer who once belonged to the Peasants’ Party tries to shelter from the purges and falls for a beautiful cashier, the daughter of a former tavern keeper.
Observator cultural 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Bucharest, the Great Hope”
Cristian Teodorescu · 65 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:In troubled times at the start of the 20th century, a married couple from a village in Transylvania gather what they own and move with their whole family to Bucharest to make a new life.
Observator cultural 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Virtue Road: The Book of the Dog”
Cristian Teodorescu · 61 when first published
Novel · 328 pages · Politics
AI-generated summary:Honest but naive people are drawn into the hallucinatory world of those who grew rich after 1989, a world of corrupt politicians and their hidden ties to the former Securitate, played out in the Bucharest district of Militari.
Observator cultural 2010 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Medgidia, the Town of the Afterlife”
Cristian Teodorescu · 55 when first published
Novel · 276 pages · Historical, War, Politics
AI-generated summary:In the 1940s life in Medgidia, a small market town in Dobruja, seems calm and everyone minds their own business, until the echoes of the war reach it too.