Andrei Crăciun is a journalist (co-founder of Recorder.ro, Let there be light). He has 20 years of experience in the media. Awards: Talent of the Year – 2005 (Ioan Chirilă Awards). The best young culture journalist - Freedom House - 2010. The best columnist in Romania - Clubul Român de Presă - 2011. The best reporter in Romania - Premiile Superscrieri - 2012. Awarded multiple times and for projects from the newsrooms where he worked (Recorder, Let there be light, We love sport, etc.). Between 2005 and 2020 he was the most awarded journalist in Romania. As a writer, Andrei Crăciun has published Barricades, Humanitas, 2014; Dawn Alley, Polirom, 2017; Ciaran. The last free man, Polirom, 2020, etc.), playwright (Paradisul – Luceafărul Theater in Iași), screenwriter (the film The Story of the Golden Generation). Andrei Crăciun holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Bucharest with a thesis on the political biography of Panait Istrati (Andrei Crăciun – Panait Istati. A political biography, Editura Zugzwang, 2024).