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She was born in 1983, in Braila, Romania. She studied foreign languages in Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest. She published three novels: Interior zero (2016, translated into German, Polish and Spanish, adapted for the stage in Romania and Germany, awarded Thoreau's Nephew Award for the best prose book of the year); Sonia ridică mâna (Sonia Raises Her Hand, 2019,  translated into German and Spanish, awarded Thoreau's Nephew Award for the best prose book of the year, the Sofia Nădejde Award for literature written by women and the Ateneu Magazine Prize for prose); and Mă găsești când vrei (2021, Find Me Whenever You Want, currently being translated into German, awarded the Sofia Nădejde Award for literature written by women). Her fourth novel, El Titi, will be released by Polirom in March 2025. Lavinia wrote the text for the docu-fiction Between Revolutions (d. Vlad Petri, 2023), awarded the FIPRESCI prize in the Forum section of the Berlinale in 2023.