Petre Luscalov

Petre Luscalov (15 April 1927 – 15 January 2004) was a Romanian writer of children books. Some of his novels, such as , , and were made into films. The book Ostrovul Lupilor became a bestseller of Romanian children’s literature.

Luscalov was born in Chișinău on 15 April 1927 and died in Bucharest on 15 January 2004, aged 76.

In the article Despre unele probleme ale eroului pozitiv (On some aspects of the positive character), published in Contemporanul in 1954, Luscalov argued that the positive character was missing from Romanian literature due to writers having a faulty idea about what it represents.

Selected bibliography

Filmography 1981 1976 1973 (novel 'Ostrovul Lupilor')/(screenplay) 1964 Pisica de mare (writer) 1957 (writer)