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 My books and plays

• The comedy  “The Fiancé” - 1978,  Turda Theatre in Romania (written with H.Salem)

• The comedy “Love at First Sight” - 1984, Tanase Theatre, Bucharest, almost 200 representations in 3 years (written with H.Salem

• The book of plays  “Give Me the Moon” ((written with H.Salem) - 1985, Cartea Românească Publishing House, Bucharest

• The novel  “Eppur si muove” by Jokai Mor , Univers Publishing House (translation from Hungarian), 1984

• The play  “The Night - a Comedy in Blue”, 1989, Paris, public reading in 1990 at the  Théâtre Essaïon in Paris

• The play  “Midwinter Night” by Bujor Nedelcovici - translated from French, presented în 1994 on the Radio and in 1995 at the Baia Mare theatre

• The play  “Tomorrow Morning” by Karinthy Frigyes - translation from Hungarian, presented in1996 at the Baia Mare theatre

• The play  “Medeea” by  Árpád Göncz - then President of Hungary - ,  (jointly with a fellow playwright, the late Iosif Naghiu) Staged by the “Mihai Eminescu” Theatre in Kishinew, Republic of Moldova, 1997; on Radio in 1999

• The prose book  “Don Juan and the Others”, Cartea Românească Publishing House, 1997. Second edition in 2011, with the title "The Clonegate".

• The play  “The Nuclear Secret”,  1997, on Radio in 1998

• The play  “The Debate” by Pierre Belfond, translated from French, on Radio 1998

• The play  “Grand Hotel Europa”, 1998, first published in an anthology  of contemporary plays in 2000

• The play  “Tales of Fairies and Lovers”, 1999, nominated for the Romanian Broadcasting Society's radio-play award

• The book of plays  “Grand Hotel Europa”, 2000, awarded the Drama prize of the Bucharest Writers' Association

• The novel  “Required Maze”, 2001 Albatros Publishing House. Second edition in 2010, Tritonic Publishing.

• “My dear Don Juan”, a show by actress Silvia Codreanu based upon the novel  “Required Maze”, the Museum of Romanian Literature, 2002

• "Mrs. Santa", a story for children published in 2002

• The book „Don Juan et les autres”, 2005, Azero Publishers, translation into French by Rodica Iliesco. Book signing in Paris, January 2006

• The play „The Nuclear Secret”, 2005, Azero Publishers,  in three languages, Romanian-French-English, with translations by Rodica Iliesco (French) and Daniela Dolgu (English)

• The play "The Traveller and Shakespeare" had a public reading by actors of Theatrum Mundi in Bucharest, 2005, at the Playwrights' Club

• The book of plays  "The Traveller and Shakespeare" , Palimpsest Publishing House, 2005. It contains two plays: "The Traveller and Shakespeare" and "The Heiress" (this last play is for one actress only).The book was awarded the playwriting prize of the Bucharest Writers' Association.

• "Surfin' the Internet" - short stories, e-book, 2007

• My play "Holidays of a Diva" was awarded the second prize at the Romanian Comedy Contest organized by the Comedy Theatre in Bucharest, 2008. The play was presented in a very successful public reading and published by the Palimpsest Publishing House.

• The play "Guerlain named his perfume..." had a fabulous reading at the Playwrights' Club in Bucharest, in June 2008. 

• The book "No Kangaroos", short stories, Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2009

• The story "Quartett", in the book "The Honorable MP is collapsing", a collection of nine political short stories, Tritonic Publishing House, 2009.

• The detective novel "Crime at the Jubilee", 2010, Crime Scene Publishing. Introducing Stella Marian-Harrington, a world-famous opera diva and  detective literature fan, who finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery - and solves it!
• In 2011,  "The Octopus" was published in the anthology of Romanian short stories "Ochelarii de fum" (Smoke Glasses).
• Reading of the play "The Heiress" at the Playwrights' Club in Bucharest, in June 2011.

(to be continued)