Born 1974 · Romania
Observator cultural 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“I Leave by Night, I Come Back by Night”
Florin Lăzărescu · 47 when first published
Novel · 208 pages
AI-generated summary:One morning Pavel feeds the hens and gets on a train: a single day in which people seem to talk about nothing, withdraw cash, quarrel, smoke and make up.
Observator cultural 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Happenings and Characters”
Florin Lăzărescu · 41 when first published
Short stories
AI-generated summary:More than two hundred very short stories drawn from a writer’s journal of twelve years, about incidents and people caught on the fly rather than about himself.
Observator cultural 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Numbness”
Florin Lăzărescu · 39 when first published
Novel · 248 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A former antiquarian bookseller and writer stuck in front of the blank page, sunk in a numbness of body and mind, lodges with a landlady who is slowly showing the signs of Alzheimer’s.