¿Lucian Dan Teodorovici is an excellent teller of atmospheric tales. The tales from childhood are all extraordinary and I don¿t think there is any other contemporary writer with a better grasp of childhood and its mixture of curiosity, candor and fear."

Lucian Dan Teodorovici (b. 1975) is a novelist, author of short fiction, and screenwriter. His novel Our Circus Presents... was published in English translation by Dalkey Archive Press in 2009. Matei Brunul has earned widespread critical acclaim in Romania and won a number of major national awards.