M.M. Loviste - Biography

M. M. Loviste is born in 1956 in Boisoara, Tara Lovistei. After graduating from the Panait Donici Engineering Military Institute in 1979, he works as a sapper leader until 1989, when he is discharged. Since 1994, he has worked for a radio station, and, since 1995, for a television channel, where he makes short movies, documentaries, news reports, television investigations, live transmissions, and live shows. From 1996 until 2008, he is the General Manager of the Etalon television station, during which time this station is recognized at national and international levels, especially in the field of short movies. Loviste attends the “Days and Nights of Literature” International Festival in both 2007 and 2008, where he films The 14^th Wave, a documentary  highly praised by the president of the Writers' Union of Romania (USR). Loviste is also noted for his exclusive interviews with the famed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for literature, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.

In 1994, Loviste publishes his first prose volume, A Cross Too Heavy, which deals with the Romanian village during the period around World War II. His next novel, Stolen Identities (1996), portrays Romanian soldiers being taken hostage in the Soviet Union. In 1997, he publishes Nessus’s Attire, an excellent radiography of the period before and after the Communist regime. In his short story volume The Irretrievable (1999), the author addresses social issues. Then, in 1999, he becomes a member of the USR. In 2001, he publishes The City of the Last Eclipse, a satire on the Romanian society after 1989, which in 2008 receives the Vasile Militaru Award from the Writers' Union of Romania during the second National Festival for Literature and Satire in Pitesti. His last two volumes are republished in 2006 and launched during the Gaudeamus International Book Fair, in Bucharest. In 2007, the same books are nominated for the USR Awards, Book of the Year, for prose. Loviste’s literature and television activity have brought him numerous prizes and distinctions.

In 2009, he publishes the novel Apprentices of the Word, a terrible confrontation between good and evil. At stake in this dramatic confrontation is man, to whom God gives freedom of choice. The key to this novel is, naturally, the Word, which is omnipresent and vital to man.
           The same year, the volume is awarded the USR Special Jury Award, Book of the Year, for prose. The Church also recognizes the spiritual and artistic value of the book, the Archbishop of Arges and Muscel, His Grace Calinic Argatu, awarding it with the plaquette of Saint Voivode Neagoe Basarab and the icon of the Saint, plated in silver and gold.
           In 2012, the author dedicates himself to a new novel. The fruit of four years of arduous work, Halacha? is built upon three reference points: the atmosphere in which the worst act of injustice – the Trial of Jesus – took place two thousand years ago; the political schemes that lead to the murder of Jesus Christ by means of high-level corruption – the scourge that has been plaguing the world of yesterday, today, and tomorrow; the presentation of the most unusual form of defense of the Son of God – silence.

Several novels by M.M. Loviste are available online via international retailers like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Smashwords, as well as in the following virtual magazines: Cultinform, Litera, Pasager and Respiro. Check Apprentices of the Word in both the English and Romanian editions; Halacha?, The City of the Last Eclipse and The Irretrievable are available in Romanian edition.