I was born on September 9, 1960 in Cluj, Romania. My family has an old and solid intellectual tradition; most of my ancestors have been teachers, doctors or engineers. Actually, my father was a senior ophthalmologist and my mother is a Romanian teacher. As I hope to show clearly, I’m sure to have inherited both of them.

I graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in my home city in 1985 and worked as a physician ever since: first as a GP and presently as a senior anesthesiologist in the Ophthalmology Clinic of Cluj.

I am married, also since 1985, to a former colleague of mine. My wife is now a GP in our city. We have a son, born in 1986, who graduated computer science in English. He is sometimes helpful to me with the translations, since he took the Cambridge CPE test. I should add that my sister, born in 1968, and her husband are doctors too.

As I said, I have something from both of my parents. I followed my father’s profession, but one of my favorite hobbies is literature – not only reading, but also writing. I started with a diary at the age of 18 and continued with a “record” of my son’s feats since he was born (October 12, 1986).

In the spring of 1989, as a rural doctor in the northern part of the country, I began to write a book containing the description of this new area and life for me. The latter part was converted into a kind of novel, which I resumed some years ago and completed in 2003. The whole was published in Romanian, with the title “O altă lume; Amintiri din tinereţe – şi nu tocmai” (“Another World; Recollections of Youth – and not quite”).

This was possible thanks to the support of Mr. Gabriel Stănescu, director of “Criterion Publishing” and editor-in-chief of “Origini” (“Romanian Roots”), a review of literature, ideas and arts belonging to the Romanians in the US. I had some essays published in this review; I shall mention them at “Accomplishments”. Thus, he remarked me and proposed that I enroll into LITER ART XXI (Voices across Nations) – the international association of Romanian writers and artists, where Sidney Sheldon is among the honorary members. As soon as I spoke to Mr. Stănescu about my literary activity and sent him fragments of my book, he was enthusiastic in stimulating me to publish it. He was present at the launch, in November 2004.

I have other works already published. One of them is a sentimental history of the ten World Cups I watched, from 1966 to 2002. It is entitled “Jubileul unui microbist” (“The jubilee of a football fan”). The other deals with football, too. It is suggestively called “Al unsprezecelea” (“The eleventh”), as it is the story of the 2006 World Cup. Unfortunately, none of my writings is already translated into English. I promise to translate them (especially the former), as soon as time will permit me. As a sample, I translated a chapter of my first book, chapter which appeared separately in “Origini”, having as title “The uprising of Petrova”.

Speaking of translations, I was the one to transpose into English poems by ALEXANDER PASCOVICI, a well-known poet in Romania, who now lives in America. Some of them were published in my city, by “Napoca Star” Publishing House, in May 2007, under the title “Poezia restului sau Puţin din albastrul cerului – Poetry of the Remnant or A Bit of the Sky’s Blue”. I have started to translate my articles and essays, too.

In August 2007 I was admitted into the Writers’ League of Romania and I published several articles in its review.

Since June 2008, several works of mine appeared at the Online Publishers of the Romanian Association for Patrimony, an organization with whom I have cooperated for more than a year. The first is called “Cele şase luni” (“The six months”) and can be defined as a continuation and supplement of my first book. I started to translate it into English, and I hope to publish it in the USA by the end of this year. Thereafter, at the “Semănătorul (The seeder)” online publishing house appeared “De-ale lui Vlăduţ (Sayings of little Vlad)” – a selection of the funniest things I wrote about my son. This was followed, at the same publishing house, by “Eseuri şi panseuri (Essays and thoughts)” – a collections of articles from the last years.