Cristian Tudor Popescu

Cristian Tudor Popescu (born 1 October 1956) is a Romanian journalist and writer. An alumnus in Computer Science of the Universitatea Politehnica Bucureşti, he was a writer of science fiction stories before 1989. Image File history File links Ctpopescu. ... Image File history File links Ctpopescu. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Part of the Politehnica campus The Rectorat building Universitatea Politehnica BucureÅŸti is a technical university of Bucharest, Romania. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Within the romanian science fiction domain,C.T.Popescu had remarked himself as a writer,an essayist,a SF literary critic,a translator and a SF editor. His debut was in 1984 in the "Echinox" literary magazine (Cluj,Romania)with the SF story "The Ash Garden" (Gradina de cenusa). C.T.Popescu had published in the majority of the SF anthologies,almanachs and magazines before 1990. C.T.Popescu had been a laureate of the ROMCON Awards(1985,1986) and his "Planetarium" had received the EUROCON Award.

After 1990,his SF activity was resumed to the translation and editing. C.T.Popescu had translated Stanislaw Lem's novels "Manuscript found in a bathtub","Return from the stars" and Norman Spinrad's "Bug Jack Barron" (in collaboration with Dan Mihai Pavelescu). As SF editor,C.T.Popescu had published Danut Ungureanu's novel "Marilyn Monroe on a closed curve"-1993,Dan Merisca's "Revolt in labyrinth"-1996 and the SF antology "The Empire of the crooked mirrors"-1993.

His SF works: "Planetarium", SF stories,Albatros Printing Press,Bucharest,1987 and "Omohom.Speculative Fictions" (mainly a reprint of "Planetarium",two stories had been added,one had expelled),Polirom Printing Press,Iasi,2000.

Between 1990 and 2005 he was the editor-in-chief at Adevărul newspaper. In 2005, in disagreement with the management, he and 81 journalists resigned from the paper and, together with Mircea Dinescu, started their own Gândul. He distinguished himself as a hard critic, tough spoken, moralist journalist. With an easy recognisable look and way of speaking, Popescu is a respected critic and journalist (and occasionally a tennis commentator). He is often invited as a guest in TV shows. This article is about the year. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Adevărul (The Truth) is a Romanian broadsheet newspaper, based in Bucharest. ... Mircea Dinescu is a Romanian poet, editor and dissident. ... Gândul is a Romanian daily newspaper published in Bucharest. ... The word critic comes from the Greek κριτικός, kritikós - one who discerns, which itself arises from the Ancient Greek word κριτής, krités, meaning a person who offers reasoned judgement or analysis, value judgement, interpretation, or observation. ... A tennis net Tennis is a sport played between either two players (Singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a ball, a hollow rubber ball covered in felt, over a net into the opponents court. ...

Cristian Tudor Popescu is also the president of the Romanian Press Club (Clubul Român de Presă).