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Doina Rusti
Doina Ruşti (born 1957) is a top female writer in Romania
today. Her work has been translated into nine languages,
and awards for her many novels have included The
Romanian Academy’s Ion Creangă Prize and the Prize of
the Romanian Writers Union.
In
The Phanariot Manuscript
, a manuscript from 1796
tells the story of a boy from Thessaloniki who comes to
Bucharest to get rich, but falls in love with a slave girl,
and has some hard decisions to make. Translated from
Romanian by Liana Grama and Andrew K. Davidson.
In the short story, “The Lover”, a local religious man
maintains a strange hold on the women around him.
Translated from Romanian by Andrew K. Davidson, revised
by Daniela and Matt Riain.