Dumitru Crudu

Dumitru Crudu (born 8 November 1967 in Flutura, Ungheni) is a poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He studied in Chișinău, Tbilisi, Brașov and Sibiu. Together with Marius Ianuș, he launched the Fracturist manifesto in 1998–1999, influencing Romanian poetry at the beginning of the 2000s. He coordinates the Vlad Ioviță Creative Writing Workshop and is a constant presence in the cultural press. He writes poetry, short fiction, novels and drama, addressing marginality, war, precarity and everyday life with tragicomic energy. His play The Choice of Alexandru Suțțo was recognised by UNITER, while Greetings to Trotsky received the Romanian Academy’s Ion Creangă Prize.

Falsul Dimitrie / The False Dimitrie — 1994

E închis, vă rugăm nu insistați / Closed — Please Do Not Insist — 1994

Șase cânturi pentru cei care vor să închirieze apartamente / Six Cantos for Those Who Want to Rent Apartments — 1996

Poeme crude / Raw Poems — 1999

Pooooate / Maaaaybe — 2004

Măcel în Georgia / Massacre in Georgia — 2008

Oameni din Chișinău / People of Chișinău — 2011

Un american la Chișinău / An American in Chișinău — 2013

Salutări lui Troțki / Greetings to Trotsky — 2016

Ziua de naștere a lui Mihai Mihailovici / Mihai Mihailovici’s Birthday — 2019

Margareta noastră / Our Margareta — 2021

Ora cinci și șapte minute / Five Oh Seven — 2023

Tu și alte femei / You and Other Women — 2025