Cristian Tudor Popescu
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Cristian Tudor Popescu (born 1 October 1956) is a Romanian journalist and writer. An alumnus in Computer Science of the Universitatea Politehnica Bucureşti, he was a writer of science fiction stories before 1989.
Within the Romanian science fiction domain, C.T.Popescu had remarked himself as a writer, an essayist, a SF literary critic, a translator and a SF editor. His debut was in 1984 in the "Echinox" literary magazine (Cluj, Romania)with the SF story "The Ash Garden" (Gradina de cenusa). C.T.Popescu had published in the majority of the SF anthologies, almanachs and magazines before 1990. C.T.Popescu had been a laureate of the ROMCON Awards(1985,1986) and his "Planetarium" had received the EUROCON Award.
After 1990,his SF activity was resumed to the translation and editing. C.T.Popescu had translated Stanislaw Lem's novels "Manuscript found in a bathtub","Return from the stars" and Norman Spinrad's "Bug Jack Barron" (in collaboration with Dan Mihai Pavelescu). As SF editor, C.T.Popescu had published Danut Ungureanu's novel "Marilyn Monroe on a closed curve"-1993,Dan Merisca's "Revolt in labyrinth"-1996 and the SF anthology "The Empire of the crooked mirrors"-1993.
His SF works: "Planetarium", SF stories, Albatros Printing Press, Bucharest,1987 and "Omohom. Speculative Fictions" (mainly a reprint of "Planetarium",two stories had been added, one had expelled), Polirom Printing Press, Iasi,2000.
Between 1990 and 2005 he was the editor-in-chief at Adevărul newspaper. In 2005, in disagreement with the management, he and 81 journalists resigned from the paper and, together with Mircea Dinescu, started their own Gândul. He distinguished himself as a hard critic, tough spoken, moralist journalist. With an easy recognisable look and way of speaking, Popescu is a respected critic and journalist (and occasionally a tennis commentator). He is often invited as a guest in TV shows.
Cristian Tudor Popescu is also the president of the Romanian Press Club (Clubul Român de Presă).
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