Born 1974 · Romania
Observator cultural 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Road to Sunrise”
Ioana Nicolaie · 50 when first published
Novel · 264 pages · Love, Speculative
AI-generated summary:A hero who must save himself, and be saved, by remembering travels through the tollgates of the sky in a love story that outlasts a single life, at once realistic and fantastic.
Observator cultural 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Reghina’s Book”
Ioana Nicolaie · 45 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:In the small town of Văralia in northern Transylvania, where the miraculous slips into everyday life and recent history crushes people’s fates, Reghina, a female Job, is mother to twelve children.
Observator cultural 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Black Wormwood”
Ioana Nicolaie · 43 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A girl born a few months after the Chernobyl disaster grows up, unaware, in a place contaminated by radiation, her life like a rope that grows thinner with every step.