Dumitru Crudu

Dumitru Crudu was born in 1967 in Flutura (in the former Moldavian Soviet republic, now the Republic of Moldava). He studied journalism in Chişinău (Moldova) and Tbilisi (Georgia) and graduated in philology at the universities of Braşov and Sibiu (Romania). In 1994, he debuted with two collections of poems: Falsul Dimitrie (»The false Dimitri«) and E închis vă rugăm nu insistaţi (»Closed, please do not insist«). In 1998, Crudu collaborated with Marius Ianuş to issue the Fracturist Manifesto. In 2003, he won a competition for best play organised by the Romanian Drama Society and the Princess Margareta of Romania Fund. To date, he has written seven plays, some of which have been filmed and have found an international audience. Crudu has also written prose, including the novel Măcel in Georgia (»Slaughter in Georgia«) and the collected stories Salutari lui Troţki (»Greetings from Trotski«). Two of his prose books – “People from Chisinau” and “Five and Seven Minutes” – were translated into Czech by Petr Štengl Publishing House in Prague in 2017 and 2023, respectively, by Jiří Našinec. His prose book “Greetings to Trotsky” was published in French by L’Harmattan Publishers in Paris in 2021. The novel “Five o’clock and seven minutes” is currently being published by Edizioni Joker in Italy, in translation Clara Mitola. His newest book of poetry – DOAMNE!- was published in 2024 by Prut International. The novel Five and Seven Minutes was published in German, translated by Ingrid Baltag, by the Berlin publishing house Klak Verlag in 2025. In 2025, he published the novel YOU AND OTHER WOMEN, at the Carteir Publishing House in Chisinau. An excerpt from the novel FIFTEEN HOURS AND SEVEN MINUTE was published in Ukrainian in the literary magazine Kiev in Ukraine.