Ioan T. Morar

Ioan T. Morar (; born April 13, 1956) is a Romanian journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, literary and art critic, diplomat and civil society activist. He is a founding member of the satirical magazine Academia Cațavencu (to which he notably contributes art and culture reviews) and, since 2004, a senior editor for Cotidianul. An amateur actor in his youth, he was also a member of the comedy troupe Divertis from the mid-1980s to 1996.

Biography Born in Șeitin, Arad County, Morar graduated as a valedictorian from the University of Timișoara's Faculty of Philology (Romanian-French section) in 1981.

Assigned to a teaching position in Lugoj, A fresco of a Swabian locality in the Banat (see Lindenfeld, Caraș-Severin), it is considered a "Postmodern novel".

In early 2007, he left on an extended journey to New Caledonia, which he documented in a special blog for Academia Cațavencu, called Morar&More.

In 2010, he was named Romania's Consul General in Marseille, France. In 2013 he published his second work of prose, "Negru și Rosu", which was shortlisted for "Book of the Year" by "România literară".

His 2016 novel Sărbătoarea Corturilor won the Prose section of the Romanian Writers' Union Awards. His non-fiction travel journal/memoir Șapte Ani în Provence was awarded the Special Prize at the 2018 Romanian Writers' Union Awards. His 2020 book chronicling the use of false narratives by both government and citizens, under communist dictatorship, Fake News in Epoca de Aur won him the 2020 Romanian Writers' Union Award for Writer of the Month for July.

In 2017 he was inducted into the Châteauneuf-du-Pape cupbearer group.

Morar won his European Court of Human Rights case against the Romanian state, as he argued that his sentence in a criminal defamation trial conviction was made in the absence of evidence and violated his journalistic freedom of expression.

Works Îmblânzitorul de metafore (1981) Vara indiană (1984) Fumul și spada (1989) Șovăiala (2000) Nerușinarea (2003) Lindenfeld (2005) Paloarea (2010) Negru și Roșu (2013). Translated into Spanish: Negro y rojo. Madrid, 2016. By Joaquin Garrigos. Sărbătoarea Corturilor (2016) Șapte Ani în Provence (2018) Fake News în Epoca de Aur (2020)