Constantin Iftime (Romania)

CONSTANTIN IFTIME (1957) is a poet, prose writer and essayist. He has practiced journalism and has written books on journalistic subjects (dialog, social surveys).

 He is a specialist in the history of Romanian communism; he has written and edited studies on the relation between the Securitate and schools in the 1980s (“The Mugur Călinescu Case”); he conceived and realized the “Museum of everyday life under communism” in Botoșani. 

As a poet he published the volumes: Vreau altă realitate. Artă merg pe mâna ta (I want another reality. Art, I put my faith in you – 2012), Elefantul de câmpie (The plains elephant –2014), Zlătunoaia pentru toţi (2015), Aici nu va mai linişte oricum (There will never be peace here anyway), an anthology  (2016), Stainless (2024). In 2013, he published Eseul carnivor, and in 2016, the novel Copii sălbatici. He received the debut prize of the Bucharest Writers’ Association for the volume I want another reality. Art, I walk on your hand.

He is a member of the Writers’ Union of Romania.