Alexandru Vakulovski (Republic of Moldova)

ALEXANDRU VAKULOVSKI (b. 1978, Republic of Moldova) is a poet, prose writer, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and translator. He was born in Antonești/Suvorov (now Ștefan Vodă) in the Soviet Union, today part of the Republic of Moldova. He currently works at the Municipal Library in Chișinău. He has published essays, prose, poetry, drama, and literary criticism in several Romanian and Moldovan cultural magazines. His works have been included in anthologies in Romania, Moldova, and various international publications. He is a translator of contemporary Russian literature.

Published books: Pizdeț / Fucked Up (novel, 2002); Oedip, the King of Freud’s Mother (poetry, 2002); Rupturing (drama, 2002); Letopizdeț. White Cactuses for My Girlfriend (2004); ecstasy (poetry, 2005); Bong (novel, 2007); 157 Steps to Hell (novel, 2010); Put the Books on Fire (poetry, 2012); Afghans (dialogues, 2016); Sights (poetry, 2017); Whose House Is This (poetry, 2020); Urmuz (biographical novel, 2021).

Selections of his prose and poetry have been translated into German, English, French, Swedish, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Bulgarian, Azeri, Spanish, Italian, and Turkish.