Vasile Ernu
Vasile Ernu is a Soviet-born Romanian writer.
Born in Odessa, Soviet Union, Ernu studied philosophy at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași, graduating in 1996, after which he earned a master's degree in philosophy at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 1997.
Ernu's debut book is Născut în URSS, a self-biographic work in which he recounts his experiences in the Soviet Union, in a mix of melancholia and irony.
The book earned him the debut prize of the Writers' Union of Romania and that of the România Literară magazine and it was translated in several languages, including: Russian, Italian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish and Georgian.