Vasile Ernu (born 1971) is a Soviet-born Romanian writer.
Born in Odessa, Soviet Union, Ernu studied philosophy at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in IaÃÂi, graduating in 1996, after which he earned a master's degree in philosophy at the BabeÃÂ-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 1997.
Ernu's debut book is NÃÂscut în URSS ("Born in the USSR"), a self-biographic work in which he recounts his experiences in the Soviet Union, in a mix of melancholia and irony.
The book earned him the debut prize of the Writers' Union of Romania and that of the România Literaràmagazine and it was translated in several languages, including: Russian, Italian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish and Georgian.