Moldovan writer, dramatist says 2021 fruitful year for him

Chisinau, 12 January /MOLDPRES/ - The 2021 year was one of the most successful years from the viewpoint of the literary work for the poet, prose writer, dramatist Dumitru Crudu.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, Dumitru Crudu said that his book of short stories titled Salutări lui Troțki (Greetings from Trotsky) had been published in Paris last year. The volume has 270 pages.

Also in 2021, Dumitru Crudu edited a book titled Margareta noastră (Our Margaret), who according to the author, is about our Moldovan reality. The prototype of the main character is the departed Moldovan poet, Eugen Cioclea. The volume has 300 pages and appeared in 500 copies.     

The prose writer, dramatist and poet Dumitru Crudu was born in the Flutura village, western Ungheni district, on 8 November 1967. Crudu was awarded the prize of the Theatre Union of Romania (UNITER) and the Princess Margaret for the best theatre play in Romania for the 2003 year. Dumitru Crudu was nominated for the prize, European poet of Freedom, the edition 2016-2018, Gdansk, Poland, for the poetry book, The False Dimitrie, published in the Polish language in 2018, translated by Jakub Kornhauser and Joannei Kornaś-Warwas.     

Crudu received the prize for debut in the Serbian language, for the volume of poems, Five Poems from Rotterdam, translated by Vasile Barbu, at the 2019 issue of a festival from Uzdin, Serbia. He has been writing prose since 2008. Dumitru Crudu was nominated for the Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award from Bratislava, Slovakia, for the novel, An American in Chisinau, for the prizes of the magazine Observator Cultural” and Ziarul de Iași (The Iasi Newspaper) and got the prize of the Writers’ Union of Romania, Chisinau Branch.  Crudu received the Ion Creanga prose prize of the Romanian Academy for the short prose book, Greeting to Trotsky. The novel, People from Chisinau, was translated into the Czech language by Jiři Našinec.