Dan Lungu

Dan Lungu (born 15 September 1969 in Botoșani) is a novelist, short-story writer and sociologist. He studied sociology and political science and taught at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. He served as Director of the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Iași and initiated the Iași International Festival of Literature and Translation. His fiction, translated into numerous languages, explores post-communist Romania, social memory, migration and everyday life through humour, oral language and precise sociological observation. His novel I’m an Old Communist Hag! achieved wide international circulation and was adapted for film and stage. France awarded him the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Muchii / Edges — 1996

Cheta la flegmă / The Phlegm Collection — 1999

Proză cu amănuntul / Retail Prose — 2003

Raiul găinilor / The Hen Paradise — 2004

Băieți de gașcă / Gang Boys — 2005

Sînt o babă comunistă! / I’m an Old Communist Hag! — 2007

Cum să uiți o femeie / How to Forget a Woman — 2009

În iad toate becurile sînt arse / In Hell All the Light Bulbs Are Burnt Out — 2011

Fetița care se juca de-a Dumnezeu / The Little Girl Who Played God — 2014

Pâlpâiri / Flickers — 2018

O furnică în bibliotecă / An Ant in the Library — 2019

Rădăcini de buzunar / Pocket Roots — 2022