Iulian Ciocan

Iulian Ciocan (born 6 April 1968 in Chișinău) is a novelist, literary critic, journalist and essayist. He was a long-standing contributor to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. His novels examine post-Soviet society, memory, precarity and the absurdities of everyday life through a concentrated, ironic and lucid style. He is among the contemporary Moldovan prose writers with the widest international circulation: his books have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian and Bulgarian. The Land of Sașa Kozak received the Coup de Coeur distinction at the Salon du Livre des Balkans, while the French edition of The Queen of Hearts was nominated for the European Jean Monnet Prize.

Înainte să moară Brejnev / Before Brezhnev Died — 2007

Tărâmul lui Sașa Kozak / The Land of Sașa Kozak — 2011

Iar dimineața vor veni rușii / And in the Morning the Russians Will Come — 2015

Dama de cupă / The Queen of Hearts — 2018

Clovnul / The Clown — 2021

Lica / Lica — 2026