Adrian Oțoiu

Adrian Oțoiu () is a novelist, essayist and translator.

He was born on 30 April 1958 in Râmnicu Sărat, in southeastern Romania. As his father was an aviation pilot, he spent his childhood in the company of airplanes.

After studying at the Arts High School in Baia Mare, Oțoiu earned a degree in Romanian and English from the University of Baia Mare in 1981. In 2001 was awarded a PhD in philology from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, with a dissertation on the Romanian generation of postmodern fiction writers of the 1980s, under the supervision of Ion Pop.

Oțoiu is currently an Associate Professor (reader) at the Faculty of Letters of Northern University of Baia Mare. He directed a [https://web.archive.org/web/20051205092307/http://www.ceu.hu/sun/SUN%202002/Descriptions/Cultural%20Diversities.htm postgraduate summer course] at Central European University in Budapest. He has also taught at the University of Limerick, University of New Mexico, and Carson–Newman University.

Oțoiu is a member of the Writers' Union of Romania and of the European Society for the Study of English. Provided by Wikipedia