Doina Ruști

Her bestseller Manuscrisul fanariot [ro] (The Phanariot Manuscript), 2015, 2016, 2017), which novelizes a18th-century's love story, was followed by Mâța Vinerii (The Book of Perilous Dishes, 2017), a tale about sorcerers and magical culinary recipes, translated into German, Spanish and Hungarian.[4] These two books give a perspective on a quite controversial historical period: the 18th Phanariot century. The stodgy style, the poetic overlay and the narrative fluidity were hallmarks of these two books. She is also the author of the novel Omulețul roșu (The Little Red Man, 2004, 2012), which was awarded the Prize of the magazine Convorbiri Literare, and the multi-awarded Zogru (2006, 2015), a meta-novel translated into Italian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Spanish.

Her novel Lizoanca la 11 ani, 2009, 2017 was awarded the Ion Creangă Prize of the Romanian Academy.[1] It was remarked as "one of the most powerful contemporary Romanian novels"[2], from the point of view of its themes and typology construction (according to Paul Cernat, Gelu Ionescu On its publication, Lizoanca caused debates, as it brought to the public's attention the story of a child almost unanimously accused of the atrocities committed by the accusers. Translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, the novel had reviews and kindled debates on taboo themes, such as pedophilia, domestic abuse, the issue of children with incompetent parents (Marina Freier and Magyar Nemzet). For that matter, the topic of family decay as an institution is recurrent in all the novels written by Doina Ruști.[3]

Doina Ruști (Romanian pronunciation: [dojna roushtie]; (born 15 February 1957) is a Romanian writer and novelist. Some of her novels are: Fantoma din moară [ro] (The Ghost in the Mill), 2008, Zogru [ro], 2006, and Lizoanca la 11 ani (Lizoanca at age eleven), 2009.