Domnica Radulescu

Domnica Radulescu is a Romanian American award-winning novelist, playwright, and scholar who arrived in the United States in 1983 as a political refugee, having escaped the Communist dictatorship of her native Romania. She holds a PhD in French and Italian Literatures from the University of Chicago and is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Train to Trieste (Knops 2009 & 2010), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld 2010 & 2011), and Country of Red Azaleas (Grand Central Hachette 2016).

Train to Trieste was published in thirteen languages and won the 2009 Best Fiction Award from the Library of Virginia. Both Train to Trieste and Black Sea Twilight became bestsellers in the UK in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Radulescu has also authored three books of original plays and more than a dozen books and edited collections of literary criticism on topics ranging from representations of the feminine in modern French literature to the tragic heroine across cultures, women theater makers and comedy, and the theater of war and exile.

She is the 2011 recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, a two-time Fulbright scholar, and a distinguished service professor of French and Comparative Literature at Washington and Lee University.