ȘTEFAN MITROI (Romania)

Poet, prose writer, playwright and publicist, former prosecutor, ȘTEFAN MITROI was born on May 5, 1956, in the village of Siliștea, Teleorman County. He attended primary school in his native village and high school in the city of Alexandria. A graduate of the Faculty of Law of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași in 1980, he was briefly a prosecutor in Alexandria, then an editor at the newspaper Scânteia tineretului. After 1990, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tineretul liber and president of the Union of Professional Journalists of Romania. He made his editorial debut in 1986, with the volume Nothing about Loneliness. He has published over 20 books of prose, poetry, theatre and children’s literature. In 2010, he received the Romanian Academy Award for the novel Dulce ca pelinul.

It has been translated from Portuguese, French, Spanish and Bulgarian. It is enough to read what he writes to fall in love with the village of the past, as he still sees it, feels it and reveals it to everyone through his books. Awarded by the Romanian Writers’ Union for the volume Stories of the Sky, Stories of the Earth, he launched in the MNLR Garden, Remember Not to Forget, RAO Publishing House, but also A Short History of Eternity, Hoffman Publishing House, and The Deaf and Dumb Cat and Eleven Other Stories, RAO Publishing House, Gheorghe’s Funeral Day, RAO Publishing House.