Bogdan Crețu is a novelist, literary critic, and Professor of Romanian Literature at „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania, he was Director of the Institute of Romanian Philology, Romanian Academy, Iasi (2013-2022). He published 8 books of criticism, including Negative Utopia in Romanian Literature (2008) and The Unicorn at the Eastern Worldʼs Gates: D. Cantemirʼs Bestiary—A Comparative Study (2013, Second edition in 2021), for which he was awarded the debut award of the Romanian Writers' Union and Romanian Academy’s Titu Maiorescu Prize for Literary Criticism. He is also co-author for important works as La Bible dans les littératures du monde, Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2016; Romanian Literature as World Literature, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018; Theory in the "Post" Era. A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. He published 3 novels: The Horn of the Unicorn (2021, nominated for „Festival du Premier Roman”, Chambéry), Nikita. The Poet as the Soldier (2022, translated into Serbian, Albatros Plus Publishing House, Belgrade, 2024) and Less than Love (2023, The Romanian PEN Award).
