Born 1952 · Romania
Observator cultural 2013 · Winner
Stelian Tănase · 60 when first published
Novel · 480 pages · Historical, Speculative
AI-generated summary:A sumptuous fable drawn from chronicles, archives, the 20th-century press and dreams, bringing together the fall of Byzantium, the betrayal of Judas, the melancholy of genius, great loves, the fate of Europe and the Devil.
Observator cultural 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Death of a Tango Dancer”
Stelian Tănase · 59 when first published
Novel · Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:In 1940s Bucharest under foreign occupation, a city dancing on a volcano, prostitutes, variety artists, gangsters, black-market dealers and White and Red Russian officers cross paths around a brothel and the North Station.
Observator cultural 2009 · Shortlist
Stelian Tănase · 56 when first published
Novel · 592 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Somewhere between hyperrealism and the absurd, a melodrama plays out behind the spotlights of television, a trivial, fascinating and mystifying spectacle seen from the inside as the litmus paper of its age.