Florin Lazarescu is a Romanian writer and screenwriter. He debuted in 2000 with a collection of short stories (Mistletoe Nests), followed by a couple of novels: What They Know about Panda (2003) and Our Special Envoy (2005) - winner at East European Literature Awards in Frankfurt, translated into nine languages, as well as the famous collection of short stories The Tube with a Hat (2009) and the novel Numbness (2013; winner of The Chinese Association of Foreign Literature Award; published in Chinese, 2015).
He has had several public readings all over Europe and USA (Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Vienna, New Orleans and many more). Florin Lazarescu is the screenwriter of The Tube with a Hat, one of the most awarded short films in the history of Romanian cinema. Ever since, Lăzărescu teamed up with Jude for the screenwriting of the short Shadow of a Cloud (premiered in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) and of the feature film Aferim!.
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