Ioana Pârvulescu is a writer and professor at the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest. She has published more than twenty successful works, including novels, essays, and two books for children. Her novels include La vie commence vendredi [Life Begins on Friday] (translated by Marily Le Nir, Seuil, 2016 – European Union Prize for Literature), Viitorul începe luni [The Future Begins on Monday], Inocenții [The Innocents], Prevestirea [The Prediction], and Aurul pisicii [The Cat’s Gold], all published by Humanitas. She has written essays on everyday life in past eras, the most notable being Moi aussi, j’ai vécu sous le communisme [I, Too, Lived Under Communism]. Invizibilii [The Invisibles] (2022) was adapted into a musical and recently received the Book to Screen Award, which will ensure its adaptation into a television series. Pârvulescu has also published translations from French (including Maurice Nadeau and several Asterix albums) and German (Rilke and Angelus Silesius). Her novels have been translated into fifteen European languages and have received numerous major literary awards.