LEONARD OPREA - one of the most interesting East-European novelist, poet and essayist.Former anti-communist dissident and forbidden writer under the Romanian Dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. ver maisLEONARD OPREA - one of the most interesting East-European novelist, poet and essayist.Former anti-communist dissident and forbidden writer under the Romanian Dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. Leonard Oprea’s works are well-known in Europe, America, Asia, Australia. Author of The X-Ray of an Instant and The Straitjacket, novels banned by the Romanian Communist Dictatorship. Also, author of Theophil Magus in Baton Rouge – a haiku novel, Trilogy of Theophil Magus – The Truth, The Daily Agony of Theophil Magus, Theophil Magus in Boston, novels, essays and poetry, works published in the USA and well appreciated worldwide. Leonard Oprea created the first "haiku-novel" and the "Breathing", a genuinely different type of essay in the whole world culture. Today, Leonard Oprea lives in the USA.ver menos