George Arion

Critical response

• "Thanks to George Arion we finally have a true and native crime novel." - Ov. S. Crohmălniceanu, Literary Romania, 1984.
• "I don’t think there is another character in our contemporary literature capable of competing with Andrei Mladin in popularity. Built seemingly just for fun, this tall and suave man has succeeded… in conquering the hearts of the most varied groups of readers, amounting to actual fights between children and parents, brother and sister, husband and wife, lover and sweetheart on the subject of who has the right to read the book first." Tudorel Urian, Student Life, 28 January 1987.
• "Arion’s crime novels stand out through an alert style, through humour and through the picturesque language of his characters." Mircea Zagi, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu, The Dictionary of Romanian Writers, 1995.
• "George Arion is a virtuoso of crime writing." Dumitru Micu, The History of Romanian Literature from Folklore to Post-Modernism, 2000.

  Mystery and Thriller novels

• Attack in the Library, 1983.
• The Professional. Moving Target, 1985.
• Stunt, 1986.
• Choosing sides, 1990.
• Barintown Murders, 1995.
• Endless Yesterday, reedited as The King in Check in 2008, and translated in 2014 in French with the title Cible royale.
• The Chameleon , 2001.
• The Investigations of a Lone Detective, 2003.
• Spies in the Heat, 2003.
• The Demon of Colga, 2004.
• Sophisticated Murders, 2009.
• The Castle of the Lunatics, 2011.
• Suffocation, 2012.
• In 1996, the complete Andrei Mladin collection was published with the title The Reluctant Detective, reedited in 2008 by Crime Scene Publishing.
• In 2011, Attack in the Library was published in English by Profusion Crime in London.
• The Island of Books, 2014, Crime Scene Press.
• The Companion of Jesus, 2016, Crime Scene Press.
• Master of Fear, 2017, Crime Scene Press.
• The Special Envoy, 2018, Crime Scene Press.
• Shadows of Ada Kaleh, 2019, Crime Scene Press.

  Poetry

• The Children Left Alone, 1979.
• Memories from the Abandoned Citadel, 1980.
• The Crossing, 1997.
• Look who isn’t talking, poetry for children, 1997.

  Literary criticism

• Alexandru Philippide or the Drama of Uniqueness, 1981.
• Starting from 2006, George Arion is also responsible for a section entirely devoted to crime novels in the Sunday edition of Jurnalul Național.

  Journalistic works

• Interviews, 1979.
• Interviews 2, 1982.
• The Dialogue Goes On, 1988.
• Life Under the President of a Kingdom, 1997.
• A History of the Contemporary Romanian Society in Interviews , 1999.
• Silence! The Corrupt are Working for Us, 2003.
• The Most Beautiful 100 Interviews, 2011.

  Scripts

• Enigmas are Explained at Dawn, 1989.
• Attack in the Library, 1992.
• The Reluctant Detective, television series, 2001.

  Theatre and Opera

• Autograph : dramatic monologue, 150 performances at the Bucharest National Theatre.
• Crime scene : crime tragicomedy, broadcast on a Romanian public radio station in 2008. On stage premiere at the „Tudor Vianu” theatre in Giurgiu.
• In the Labyrinth : opera, writing of the libretto – music by Liana Alexandra. On stage at the Timișoara Opera House in 1987.
• Memories from the Apple-tree garden – crime tragicomedy, broadcast on a Romanian public radio station in 2011.
• The Mystery of a Blizzard Night – Familia magazine, n° 11-12, 2012.

  Lyrics

Prizes