Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu (born in 1979) is an editor, writer, and PhD in Romanian literature. From 2005 to 2020, he directed foreign fiction at Polirom, publishing authors such as Orhan Pamuk, Philip Roth, and Vladimir Nabokov. He is currently editorial director of the Anansi World Fiction collection (Trei Editions), where he edits works by Annie Ernaux, Jon Fosse, and Roberto Bolaño. A regular essayist for Dilema Veche and Observatorul Cultural, he debuted as an author in 2010 with Ce qui nous sépare [What Separates Us], followed by poetry collections (Après la bataille [After the Battle], Anabasis) and a literary essay (Enter Ghost). In 2017, he published L’enfance de Kaspar Hauser [The Childhood of Kaspar Hauser], an initiatory novel set in Ceaușescu-era Romania, which received awards and was translated abroad. He continued with La Lettre perdue [The Lost Letter] (2019), Ces adorables Étrusques [Those Adorable Etruscans] (2020), and Abraxas (2022), which has won multiple prizes. In 2024, he concluded his memory trilogy with Le soleil noir [The Black Sun]. He is also a translator of Faulkner, Roth, and Joyce.