Vitalie Ciobanu

Vitalie Ciobanu (born 4 May 1964 in Florești) is a novelist, essayist, literary critic, journalist and political commentator. A graduate of Journalism at Moldova State University, he worked at Hyperion Publishing House and, in 1994, co-founded the cultural and intellectual dialogue journal Contrafort with Vasile Gârneț; he continues to lead the publication. He has contributed to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Deutsche Welle, writing about literature, identity, democracy and the European path of the Republic of Moldova. He is a member of the Writers’ Union of Moldova and the Writers’ Union of Romania and is a former President of PEN Moldova. In 2021 he received Moldova’s National Prize in Literature and the Arts.

Schimbarea din strajă / Changing of the Guard — 1991

Frica de diferență / Fear of Difference — 1999

Valsul pe eșafod. 30 de pretexte literare și un Jurnal la Praga / Waltz on the Scaffold: 30 Literary Pretexts and a Prague Diary — 2001

Anatomia unui faliment geopolitic: Republica Moldova / Anatomy of a Geopolitical Failure: The Republic of Moldova — 2005

Literatur Express. Europa de la fereastra vagonului (cu Vasile Gârneț) / Literature Express: Europe from the Train Window (with Vasile Gârneț) — 2007

Scribul din grădina fermecată / The Scribe in the Enchanted Garden — 2014

Revanșa literaturii / Literature’s Revenge — 2019

Zilele după Oreste / The Days After Orestes — 2019

«Stat captiv», mod de folosire: Republica Moldova. O cronică subiectivă / “Captured State”: Instructions for Use. The Republic of Moldova — A Subjective Chronicle — 2024