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Radu Tuculescu (born January 1, 1949) is a German novelist, playwright and translator. The grandson of the great painter Ion Tuculescu and father of the prozator Razvan Tuculescu. He is currently a TVR producer. Radu Tuculescu is one of the most prestigious novelists of his generation. He has been awarded numerous national awards throughout his career, and since 2007 he has also been successful abroad. His novels have so far been translated into Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Czech Republic, Israel, and plays in Czech, Hungarian, Italian, French, Hebrew, English. Since 2008 his plays have entered the permanent repertoire of the theatre Orfeus in Prague, thus being the most played Romanian playwright in the Czech Republic.

Biography
Son of Dumitru Tuculescu, internist primary physician, and Maria (b. Manta), housewife. He grew up in Reghin, where his parents settled from 1949 until now. The I- VII classes follow them at the German School in Reghin (1956-1963), the 13th grade at the Music High School in Targu Mureș (Hungarian section), then the Music High School in Cluj (1964-1968), followed by the Music Academy "Gh. Dima" in Cluj-Napoca, the violin section (1968-1972). Between 1967 and 1974, he heads the "Atelier" Theatre and Pantomime Circle, fitting plays from classical and contemporary authors (among other things, a dramatization after Gabriel Garcia Marquez), as well as his own plays. After 1990 he continued his theatrical activity, also attending national and international festivals (France, Italy, Russia, Morocco, Canada, Hungary, Germany, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, etc.). After completing the university he is an editor at Radio Cluj (1972- 1985), and after the dissolution of the radio studio, by order of Ceaușescu, becomes a violinist at the Cluj-Napoca State Philharmonic (1985- 1989), then he is (from 1990 until now) an editor and producer at TVR Cluj (between 1990 and 1996, head of the music-cultural section). He made his debut with poems in Steaua magazine (1966), the commercial debut in Amphitheater (1967), with the article On Student Theatre. Collaborate at Student Life, Amphitheater, Echinox, University Napoca, Vatra, Tribune (where it supports, since 2003, the permanent column of advertising "Ex Abrabto," transformed from 2007 into "Letters to the President").
His stories were translated in Hungary, Russia, Austria, Czech Republic, etc. Made films (reports) for television in Belgium, Tunisia, Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Austria etc. He received several creative scholarships in Paris, Basel, Vienna or Bern. He started the collection of "Swiss German Expression Writers" of the Library of Familia magazine in Oradea, in which he translated ten volumes of lyrics and prose, and made the first Swiss short prose anthology of German expression in Romania (1997).
He is a member of the Union of Writers in Romania, a founding member of ASPRO and the Oame Society