title: Ștefan Baștovoi
text: # Ștefan Baștovoi
  
  Ștefan Baștovoi (Romanian pronunciation:; born 4 August 1976 in Chișinău), best known as Savatie Baștovoi is a Moldavian orthodox monk, essayist, poet, painter, novelist, theologian and Romanian writer of the Republic of Moldova. He became a member of the Writers' Union of Moldova in 1996. He was also a moderator of a television show.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  * Elefantul promis, (poem) (1996)
  * Cartea războiului, (poem) (1997)
  * Peştele pescar (o poveste), (poem) (1998)
  * Casa timpului (poem) (1999)
  * Idol sau icoană? (2000)
  * Ortodoxia pentru postmodernişti (with Nicolae Balotă, Andrei Kuraev and Dumitru Crudu)
  * Iepurii nu mor, (novel) (2002; ed. a II-a, 2007)
  * Nebunul, (novel) (2006)
  
  ## Referenced criticism
  
  * Mihai Cimpoi, O istorie deschisă a literaturii române din Basarabia, Ed. Porto-Franco, 1997
  * Mircea Cărtărescu, Postmodernismul românesc, Ed. Humanitas, 1999
  * Ion Bogdan Lefter, Scriitori români din anii '80–'90. Dicţionar bio-bibliografic, vol. I, Ed. Paralela 45, 2000
  