Writer and film critic Ioan Pavel Azap, a member of the Writers’ Union of Cluj, died at the age of 56, Clujul Cultural writes.

Born on May 15, 1967 in Titzvaniul-Mik, Karash-Severin district. Azap graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of UBB Cluj-Napoca, class of 1995. He was the editor of the Tribuna magazine in Cluj and received the Ion Cantacuzino Award for Reanimation Film Critic in 2010.

T.: Self-portrait with a mask, poems, 1993 (“Debut” prize of the Cluj branch of the USSR); Funigai, poems, 1997; Poems of five stars, poems, 2002; Beards, epigrams, 2002; Travels, interviews with Romanian directors, vol. I, 2003; Frame, newsreel, 2005; Gala dress, 2010; Doors with feet on the ground, lyrics, 2011; Prim-plan, newsreels, 2011. Then he published a series of volumes about cinema in the Ardeleană publishing house.