Gheorghe Crăciun (8 May 1950, Zărnești – 30 January 2007, Constanța) was a Romanian writer and translator. Crăciun was born in Tohanu Vechi, now part of

Zărnești Zărnești (; ; ) is a town in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania, with a population of 21,624 as of 2021. It administers one village, Tohanu Nou (''Neu-Tohan''; ''Újtohán''). The town is located near the Piatra Craiului Mountains, which ...

Brașov County Brașov County () is a county (județ) of Transylvania, Romania. Its capital city is Brașov. The county incorporates within its boundaries most of the Medieval "lands" (''țări'') Burzenland and Făgăraș. Name In Hungarian language, Hungari ...

. In addition to being a novelist and a translator, he was also a literary theorist. He graduated from High School in

Sighișoara Sighișoara (; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Schäsbrich'', ''Šesburχ'', or ''Scheeßprich''; ; or ) is a Municipiu, city on the Târnava Mare, Târnava Mare River in Mureș County, central Romania. Located in the ...

, and later studied at the Philology Department of the University of

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

. From 1990 he taught at the Department of Literature at Brașov University. In 2002 he received a doctorate in literature from Bucharest University for his thesis on ''Transitivity in Modernist and Post-Modernist Romanian Poetry''. He is considered an important author among Romanian literary figures from the 1980s.
An article in English explaining the concept of generation in Romanian contemporary literature

Bibliography

Romanian novels *''Acte originale. Copii legalizate'' (1982) *''Compunere cu paralele inegale'' (1988) *''Frumoasa fără corp '' (1993) *''Pupa russa'' (2004) Translated works *''Experiment in Romanian Post-War Literature'' (1998) *''Images & Texts / lmages et textes'' (2000) *''Composition aux paralleles inegales'' (2001)

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Article marking Gheorghe Crăciun's death,

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, 31 January 2007 People from Zărnești Romanian writers 1950 births 2007 deaths {{Romania-writer-stub