Lazarescu Florin

Florin Lăzărescu (b. 1974). Prose writer and screenwriter. His novel "Our Special Envoy" (Polirom, 2005) was one of the winners at the Grand Awards for East-European Literature in Frankfurt, 2006, and was translated in German, French, Spanish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Croatian and Italian. He has also published "Six Ways of Remembering a Horse" (short stories, Liternet, www.liternet.ro, 2003), "What They Know about the Panda Bear" (a novel, Polirom, 2003) and "The Tube with a Hat" (short stories, Polirom, 2009). He has given public readings in Paris, Lille, Cognac, Saint-Etienne, Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Vienna, Basel, Bern, Luxembourg, Ljubljana, Lipica, Budapest, Moscow, New Orleans, Zagreb. Author of the screenplay for the short film" The Tube with a Hat" (directed by Radu Jude and winner of the Grand Prize for Short Film at a series of international festivals, such as Montpellier, Cottbus, Bilbao, Lisabon, and Sundance, the world’s largest independent film festival). Co-writer for Animat Planet Show. www.florinlazarescu.com