DOINA ROMAN

DOINA ROMAN, born in Ploiești, graduated in Business Administration at the Open University Business School, United Kingdom. He worked for REUTERS Press Agency and currently deals with business. He is a member of the Romanian Writers’ Union and debuted in 2014 with the novel Pragul, published by Tracus Arte Publishing House, later translated into New Zealand. They followed: The Master and Half a Swan, a volume of poetry, Threshold 2 – The Witness Shadow, Threshold 3 – The Last Sent Oserp, the novel Too many gods for a desert and the novel The Little Girl of Time.

Awards obtained: 2015: RomCon – Award for the best debut book in volume; 2017: Dortmund, Germany, SESF – CHRYSALIDE Award; 2017: The Vladimir Colin Awards, 7th edition, Bucharest – Award for the best book in the category New weird, Dark fantasy, Gothic, Horror; 2018: RomCon – Prize for the best novel of the year 2017- 2022: First Prize at the International Short Story Competition, Jurnal Israelian magazine, Tel Aviv; 2022: National Sci-Fi Award for the ”Utopiqa” Almanac (ARCASF); 2023: First Prize for Prose from the Romanian Writers’ Union, South-East Branch.

Since 2020, she has been leading the literary magazine Utopiqa.