Petru Popescu (born February 1, 1944) is a Romanian-American writer, director and film producer, author of the novels Almost Adam and Amazon Beaming.
He went on a Herder scholarship to Vienna (1971–1972), and in 1973 participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
[3] After participating in that writing program, Popescu defected in 1973[4] or 1974 while in England on a private trip related to the English translation of his book Sfârșitul bahic,[1][5] taught comparative literature in Great Britain,[6] and moved to the United States in 1975, where he studied at the Center for Advanced Film Studies of the American Film Institute.
[11] His 2001 novel The Oasis is noted as "A memoir of love and survival in concentration camp" written in the first person as if in the words of the biographee, Blanka Friedman.
Popescu received a letter from Robert Redford inviting him to submit a script for consideration for the Sundance Film Festival.