We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
One day when I went to school it was raining very heavily so students could not come, so when I reached the school I was wet I saw that there were no students in the school. It was evening, so I felt lonely and it was very cold. After some time I decided to go home and rest. On my way home the rain began again. Now it was almost dark and nobody was moving. The steps were hard so I tried to escape the rain under a big acacia tree. I never knew who was there but unfortunately there was a dead man who was being killed by thieves and was sleeping beside me. When the rain stopped two police men approached me and asked me who killed this man? I said I don’t know. Then they took me to the police station and I spent two nights there. That was my worst day in my lifetime.
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