Doina Ruști met her readers on Saturday, June 6, 2026, at 11:30 a.m., at Bookfest, in the Humanitas stand at Romexpo, on the occasion of the publication of her most recent novel, Nas de bulgar, Humanitas, 2026.
The meeting took place before a large audience, with readers who had come especially for the new novel.
Joining Doina Ruști at the event were Lidia Bodea and Bogdan Stănescu.
The discussion focused on the type of storytelling, the role of emotion, and the major themes of Nas de bulgar: the individual’s relationship with history, the autobiographical as a pretext for fictional construction, ethnogenesis, and love.
“The 11 stories inserted throughout the novel,” said Doina Ruști, “are part of personal history. Every small gesture, every encounter or adventure, especially one involving love, sends out messages that become part of the synopsis of greater history.”
TVR Cultural and Adriana Irimescu, representing TVR Etnocult, attended the event, alongside writers, members of the press, and, above all, Doina Ruști’s readers.
Nas de bulgar is a love story and, at the same time, a history of identity. Each erotic episode opens a gateway to an older world: the Danubian populations, the cult of Dionysus, Bulgarian mercenaries, mythical Caucaland, archaic gods, and the spirits of a vanished world.
The novel continues, in a different tone, the universe of Ferenike. If memory in Ferenike was crossed by trauma, in Nas de bulgar love becomes the force that illuminates the past.
Dan C. Mihăilescu sees the new novel as a “complete spectacle of realism and fantasy, with chimerical loves, vulnerable innocence, and histrionic egocentrism,” placing Nas de bulgar in continuation of Ferenike, as part of a broad archaeology of identity.
Doina Ruști’s participation in the Bookfest 2026 International Book Fair was announced by Agerpres.
