Background
Crăciun was born in Tohanu Vechi, now part of Zărneşti, Braşov County.
Crăciun was born in Tohanu Vechi, now part of Zărneşti, Braşov County.
He graduated from a highschool in Sighişoara, and later studied at the Philology Department of the University of Bucharest.
In addition to being a novelist and a translator, he was also a literary theorist. From 1990 he taught at the Department of Literature of Braşov University. In 2002 he received a doctorate in literature from Bucharest University for his thesis on Transitivity in Modernist and Post-Modernist Romanian Poetry.
He is considered an important author of the 1980s generation in Romanian literature.