The author's story
Stories are for our children, but also for the children within us.
Stories are for our children, but also for those little children within us who long for them.
I have questions without answers and answers without questions; I fall silent when I hear sounds coming from nature, letting them hide away in my ears; I step into my books every time I write them, and then I step into them again, like an honoured guest, each time I reread them.
I have always been fascinated by the world of stories, though it may also be that the world of stories found something fascinating in me and chose me to help create it.
I have been writing stories since I was ten, and my very first story found its light in the cherry-plum tree I used to climb so as to be, perhaps, closer to a muse who, or so I believed back then, would meet me only there. The good character was always me, and the villains evolved in such a way that they always turned good by the end of my stories, told from the tree of my childhood.
I graduated from the „Sfinții Trei Ierarhi” secondary school in Hanu Conachi, completed my high-school studies at the „Costache Negri” National College, philology profile, and went on to study at the „Dunărea de Jos” University, Faculty of Law in Galați, because I had fallen in love with the thick volumes of legislation I happened upon in a notary's office. After finishing my degree, I missed stories, so I took a master's degree in Literature and Cultural Studies, within the „Cultural Innovation” programme of the Transilvania University of Brașov.
All the while, I soaked up every creative-writing course that came my way. With Florin Bican at the Revdepov writing school of the BrainFitness association, with Adina Rosetti in the Skvot programme, with Lavinia Braniște, again at Revdepov, with Liviana Tane at The Writing Journey, with Natașa Alina Culea at Libris Natalis, and with Alina Maria Grigore at Wallachian Voice.
Every person who has passed through my life has filled me with wonder.
I have written ten children's book titles, and I await others with an open mind.
I believe every child deserves a book to hold their hand as they grow, and I write to rediscover the courage and the happiness I had when I, too, was a child.
Childhood is the place where most questions are born, and I hope to offer the simplest answers to them. Childhood is also, I believe, the time that shapes us, and, strangely, the only period in a person's life in which a child has no power of decision or of taking ownership. All that is left, then, is for us, the adults, to strive to give them the knowledge and the support they need to become the grown-ups on whose shoulders we can cry when the wheel turns.
Once nourished, their curiosity will conquer the world. „Let's make the world we live in a better place”, that was the name of the first story I wrote in a little Chinese notebook which, more than 20 years ago, I used to lock with a padlock. Now I hand you the key: come in and find out, read, discover, for, once written, these stories are no longer mine, but Your Stories.