Bujor Nedelcovici (Romanian pronunciation: [buˈʒor neˈdelkovit͡ʃʲ]; March 16, 1936 – November 18, 2023) was a Romanian-French novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and photographer.
For the next 12 years, he had to earn his living by taking jobs inappropriate to his background, moving from one construction site or factory to another, all across Romania, from Bicaz to Braşov and Bucharest.
The subtle criticism of the authorities became a matter of scandal: four days after Sand Clifs / Faleze de Nisip (Ro) was screened, in 1981, it was banned from the market.
In 1983 Nicolae Ceauşescu, President of Romania at that time, gave a speech for Romanian Communist Party officials in Mangalia, harshly criticizing the movie and singling it out that Sand Cliffs was breaking with the ideological requirements.
While still in Romania, Bujor Nedelcovici succeeded to get the manuscript out of the country, and fortunately The Second Messenger / Le Second Messager (Fr) was published in 1985 in France by the well-known editor Albin Michel.
In 1992 Bujor Nedelcovici was awarded the Prize of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences for his novel The Second Messenger / Le Second Messager (Fr).
Nedelcovici invited to this Panel Discussion several well-known Romanian writers as well as the French scholar and historian Stéphane Courtois, author of The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression.
[2] (Romanian) In literatura las o portita de salvare [1]- Interview with Bujor Nedelcovici, Author: Ovidiu Simonca, The Cultural Observer 2007, (On-line)