Ștefan Baștovoi
Romanian-Moldovan writer
Ștefan Baștovoi (Romanian pronunciation: [ʃteˈfan baʃtoˈvoj]; born 4 August 1976 in Chișinău), best known as Savatie Baștovoi ([saˈvati.e]) is a Romanian orthodox monk, essayist, poet, painter, novelist, theologian and Romanian writer of the Republic of Moldova. He became a member of the Writers' Union of Moldova in 1996. He was also a moderator of a television show.
Selected works
Elefantul promis, (poem) (1996)
Cartea războiului, (poem) (1997)
Peştele pescar (o poveste), (poem) (1998)
Casa timpului (poem) (1999)
Idol sau icoană? (2000)
Ortodoxia pentru postmodernişti (with Nicolae Balotă, Andrei Kuraev and Dumitru Crudu)
Iepurii nu mor, (novel) (2002; ed. a II-a, 2007)
Nebunul, (novel) (2006)
Referenced criticism
Mihai Cimpoi, O istorie deschisă a literaturii române din Basarabia, Ed. Porto-Franco, 1997
Mircea Cărtărescu, Postmodernismul românesc, Ed. Humanitas, 1999
Ion Bogdan Lefter, Scriitori români din anii '80–'90. Dicţionar bio-bibliografic, vol. I, Ed.
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