Born 1941 · Romania
Observator cultural 2015 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Robinson Syndrome”
Radu Mareș · 73 when first published
Short stories · 232 pages
AI-generated summary:Four stories that complete one another: a woman’s privacy is disturbed by a tourist looking for a room, a man flees the city to a forgotten place, two friends talk about death, and a couple try to fit into a sick society.
Observator cultural 2013 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Redshift”
Radu Mareș · 71 when first published
Novel · 304 pages
AI-generated summary:Writing to an absent addressee, a narrator in post-1989 Romania follows a strange English volunteer who comes to bring aid to a children’s home, and tries to make out the story of the enigmatic twins Hans and Grete.
Observator cultural 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“When We Return”
Radu Mareș · 69 when first published
Novel · Historical
AI-generated summary:In the 1930s a young agronomist is sent to the Dniester floodplain in northern Bukovina to bring an abandoned farm back to life.