to meet the upcoming challenges.” Literary Suceavă began his writing career in 1990 with a volume of prose and essays published by Topaz, Teama de amurg ("Fear of twilight"). He has also published various volumes of novels and short stories. While Suceavă writes predominantly in Romanian, his short fiction in English has appeared in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Absinthe: New European Writing, and Red Mountain Review. In 1989, Suceavă was a freshman student in Bucharest during the downfall of the Ceaușescu dictatorship; based on his experience he wrote the novel The Night Someone Died for You, in which he reconstructs the tale of a private killed in friendly fire during the Romanian revolution. The impact on his country's social and cultural life of the subsequent transition motivated him to write his novel Venea din timpul diez in 2004. Later on, Suceavă described his novels as a cycle of narratives focused on transformations of the Romanian society. His novel The Republic (2016) is about a failed coup d'état attempt from 1870, and it showcases the transformation of the Romanian society into a modern environment where open criticism to the political power is possible. In that novel a young Ion Luca Caragiale appears as a character and participant to the political events. In 2007, Suceavă received the Fiction Award of the Association of Bucharest Writers for his novel, Miruna, a Tale. Suceavă describes Miruna, a Tale as an account of how the South Eastern traditional society gradually transformed into a more modern world. The main character in the novel, Niculae Berca, seems to be inspired from the biography of Suceavă's maternal grandfather, who fought in both WW I and WW II in the Romanian Army and survived major battles. Two of his books (Coming from an Off-Key Time, and Miruna, A Tale) have been translated into English, and received positive reviews. In 2015, the Czech version of the novel Coming from an Off-Key Time, in Jiří Našinec's translation, was presented with the Josef Jungmann Award. Suceavă presented his books to Salon du Livre (Paris, 2013, Romania as invited nation), Festival of the Book Budapest (2009, Romania as invited nation), Vilenica Festival (Slovenia, 2016), Turin International Bookfair (2015), Prague Book Fair (2014), New Literature from Europe Festival (New York, 2015), FILIT - International Festival of Literature and Translation, Iași (2014 and 2019), and in many academic events focused mainly on Eastern European fiction