Mirela Roznoveanu (born 10 April 1947) is a literary critic, writer, and journalist who has published novels, literary criticism, essays, and poetry. She was a noted dissident journalist during the turbulent period of communist Romania's late eighties. Roznoveanu was born in Tulcea. She holds an MA in Romance Languages from the University of Bucharest (1970), a master's degree in Library and Information Sciences from the Pratt Institute (1996), and a Certificate in Internet Technologies from New York University (1997). She was fired in 1974 from the literary and cultural magazine "Tomis" in Constanța where she had been a senior columnist. In 1975 she moved to Bucharest. Between 1978 and 1989 she worked as a senior columnist for the cultural magazine "Magazin", published by the "România liberă" newspaper; in April 1989, during the process of the journalists from the "Bacanu Group", she had been investigated by the Securitate, moved and punished to work as a " health worker"; her books and writing were banned (5. Grupul "România liberă" bulverseaza Securitatea si Sectia de presa a CC al PCR). She had been part of the dissident group of journalists who took over the "România liberă" newspaper from the hands of the Communist government on 23 December 1989, making it the first independent and anti-communist newspaper in Romania. She became a senior columnist, member in the board of directors, and a founder member of the "R" Company SRL. http://blog.edituracartex.ro/?p=102 She had been also a founder member of Alianta Civica,the most important post-revolution pro-democracy group. In 1991, she moved to the United States, where she has continued her writing career. She had been a librarian for the NYU School of Law (Associate Curator: International and Foreign Law Librarian, 1996–2013). From 2005-2015 she had been the Founder and the Editor of Globalex as Adjunct Associate Curator with the NYU Hauser Global Law School Program and the Honorary Editor (2015-). Globalex was awarded the American Society of International Law Jus Gentium Research Award on 13 May 2020. In December 2000, Mirela Roznoveanu was honored by outgoing President of Romania Emil Constantinescu, for exceptional contributions from abroad in the service of Romanian culture and democracy. Mirela has been named an Officer of the National Order of Faithful Service. Her book The Civilization of the Novel: A History of Fiction Writing from Ramayana to Don Quixote received the 2008 Award of the Romanian Society of Comparative Literature and