made his debut with the volume Ce față cumplită am (Polirom, 2004), his most recent being Unde îți vei petrece veșnicia (Fractalia, 2020 – co-author). He has been featured in the anthologies Best European Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010) and Best of proza scurtă a anilor 2000 (Polirom, 2013). Since 1998, he has served as a curator at the Romanian Peasant Museum. He is the co-screenwriter of several feature films, such as Visul lui Adalbert (2011), Ultima zi (2016) și Uneori ninge cu zăpadă, alteori cu întuneric (2021).