Ștefan Baștovoi

Ștefan Baștovoi (; born 4 August 1976 in Chișinău), best known as Savatie Baștovoi is a Romanian orthodox monk, essayist, poet, painter, novelist, theologian and Romanian writer of the Republic of Moldova. He became a member of the Writers' Union of Moldova in 1996. He was also a moderator of a television show.

Selected works Elefantul promis, (poem) (1996) Cartea războiului, (poem) (1997) Peştele pescar (o poveste), (poem) (1998) Casa timpului (poem) (1999) Idol sau icoană? (2000) Ortodoxia pentru postmodernişti (with Nicolae Balotă, Andrei Kuraev and Dumitru Crudu) Iepurii nu mor, (novel) (2002; ed. a II-a, 2007) Nebunul, (novel) (2006)

Referenced criticism Mihai Cimpoi, O istorie deschisă a literaturii române din Basarabia, Ed. Porto-Franco, 1997 Mircea Cărtărescu, Postmodernismul românesc, Ed. Humanitas, 1999 Ion Bogdan Lefter, Scriitori români din anii '80–'90. Dicţionar bio-bibliografic, vol. I, Ed. Paralela 45, 2000