BOGDAN HRIB 

Born on 14 December 1966 in Bucharest.

After graduating civil engineering in Bucharest, Bogdan Hrib embarked on a varied career encompassing the professions of photographer, journalist (from 1991), advertising agency director (1992) and book editor (from 1993).

Bogdan Hrib’s debut as a crime fiction writer came in 2007 with Filiera grecească (The Greek Connection), the first book in the Stelian Munteanu series. It was followed by Blestemul manuscrisului (The Curse of the Manuscript, 2008), Somalia, Mon Amour (2009), Ucideți generalul (March 2011), translated and published by Profusion Publishers as Kill the General (November 2011). The most recent book signed by Bogdan Hrib is Ultima fotografie (The Last Photograph, 2012 - not crime fiction).

A keen photographer, Bogdan is a member of the Romanian Photographers’ Association and is working at the moment on a PhD on the subject of press photography in Romania.

From 2008, Bogdan has been the editorial director of Crime Scene Publishing in Bucharest. He is also the vice-president of the Romanian Crime Writers Club (from 2010), and served as editorial counsellor of Flacăra Magazine (2010-12). He is the director/organiser of the Mystery & Thriller Festival in Râșnov (2011-12), as well as the PR coordinator of the History Film Festival in Râșnov (from 2011).