???? Writer, filmmaker, linguist, traveler, DAN ???????? ???????????????? (b. 1961) drank with General Dudaev and the last Jews in Afghanistan, reported on the Balkan wars, filmed documentaries in the Caucasus and Central Asia, taught journalism in Kabul and lived in mystical Muslim brotherhoods. In Romania, he has published plays ("The World as a Burden and a Burden", together with Luca Piţu, Opera Magna, 2012), novels and short stories ("Miros de roşcată amară", Humanitas, 2014, 2016, 2021; "În puncult lui rebbe G.", Polirom, 2016; "Pantere parfumate", Polirom, 2017; ), cultural essays ("Dacopatia și alte rătăciri și romanești", Humanitas, 2015, 2021; "Babel. In the Beginning Was the Word", Humanitas, 2022). His documentary films, including "Ghazavat" (1992, the first documentary about Chechnya), "Howling for God" (1997, "Beloved of God", about life in mystical Sufi brotherhoods) and "Cabbala in Kabul" (2007, about today's Afghanistan seen through the enmity between the last two Jews in Kabul), have won some of the most important international awards: the FIPRESCI Prize at the IDFA Festival in Amsterdam (1998), the Nanook Prize at the Ethnographic Film Festival in Paris (2007) and the Grand Prix of the Astra Festival in Sibiu (2008). ???? Her books can be found on the Cărturești Bookstore website at this address: https://carturesti.ro/autor/dan_alexe ???? NADINE VLĂDESCU was born and raised in Târgoviște, but she considers herself a Bucharest native because she has lived in Bucharest for twenty years. She graduated from the Gheorghe Lazăr National College in Bucharest, the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures, the European Master in Conference Interpreting from the University of Bucharest and the Master in Creative Writing, prose department, from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. She lived in Lyon, Paris, London and Norwich, but returned to Bucharest, where she feels most at home. She translates literature (Dan Rhodes, Elizabeth Strout, Alice Munro, Edna O'Brien, Tracy Chevalier, Jonathan Coe, Sue Townsend, Kaui Hart Hemmings, etc.) and many and varied words from English, French and Italian, in her dual role as a man of words from (and into) other languages: translator and conference interpreter. She performed on the Athenaeum stage – not pieces for soloist and orchestra, but the words of Orhan Pamuk. She has published travelogues, reviews, interviews with Romanian and foreign authors (Salman Rushdie, Rawi Hage, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Coe, etc.) and various articles in Dilema veche, Dilemateca, Observator cultural and Time Out Bucharest. He contributed to the collective volumes My First Trip Abroad (Art Publishing House, 2010), Text and Image Hunting 2 (Pandora M Publishing House, 2016), How I Love You (Vellant Publishing House, 2017), How Are You? (Vellant Publishing House, 2020) and initiated and coordinated the volume Our Imaginary Friends (Humanitas Publishing House, 2015). Following his passion for dialogue and communication, since 2012 he has been initiating and moderating cultural events in bookstores in Bucharest, such as ????????????????????????, ????????????????????????, a meeting with cultural personalities, about travel and books. He likes people, their stories and ways of speaking, cities, the baroque, the playful, the candid and the cordial, the real world and fictional worlds, freesias, spring, summer and especially the sea. ???? His books can be found on the Cărturesti Bookstore website at this address: https://carturesti.ro/product/search/... ???? ???????????????????? is a ???????????????????????????????????? project in partnership with CINEPUB and is supported by: Publicator, LiterNet.ro and Eclaude. ???? For previous editions, visit our pages: www.cinepub.ro & cerculcarturesti.wordpress.com