Romanian author Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici is set to hit international success with his most recent creation, murder mystery novel The Book of Mirrors, which will be published in 23 countries. Publishers in the UK, Germany, and France have fought to get the rights to publish his book in their countries, and even publishers in Iceland have bought the novel before its release, which is set for 2017, according to The Guardian.

British agency Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) is promoting the book. “It is such an incredible novel, so sophisticated. You would never know it was written by someone whose first language wasn’t English,” said Rachel Mills, Head of International Rights at PFD.

The book looks into the murder of a charismatic professor at Princeton University in the late 1980s but aims to be more than a classic crime novel.

“I have always thought that after three hundred pages the reader should get something more than just who killed Jane or John. I have also always thought that a writer should aspire to discover the magic land of good stories that are literary at the same time,” said Chirovici in a post on his website.

Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici was born in 1964 in Fagaras, a town in southern Transylvania, located half-way between Brasov and Sibiu.

An economist by profession (he graduated from the Bucharest’s Academy of Economic Studies in 1988), Chirovici became known in Romania as a reporter for The National Courier, a daily newspaper that was created immediately after the Romanian Revolution. He also worked as a TV producer and was and advisor to Romania’s National Bank Governor Mugur Isarescu in the early 2000s. He was also a Grand Master of the National Grand Lodge of Romania.

He published his first novel in Romania in 1991. The book, called The Massacre, sold over 100,000 copies in less than a year. After his second book, launched the same year, he didn’t publish anything for 13 years. He published ten novels and five non-fiction books on history, economics, and foreign affairs in Romania before leaving the country and settling in Britain in 2012. Some of his works have also been translated and published in other countries.

Find out more about the author here.

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