Romulus Guga was born on June 2nd, 1939 in Oradea and died on October 18, 1983 in Tirgu Mures. He debuted with a poem published in the “Tribuna” magazine of Cluj in 1958. He was editor-in-chief of “Vatra”, a magazine published in Tirgu Mures, since its establishment in 1971 until 1983. His published books were: “Bărci părăsite” (“Deserted boats”), poems,EPL, 1968, “Totem”, poems, Cartea Românească Publishing House, 1970, “Nebunul și floarea”(“The Madman and the Flower”), novel, Dacia Publishing House, 1970, 1st edition, 2nd edition, Tipomur Publishing House, 1991, with an afterword by Nicolae Băciuț, “Viața postmortem”(Life Postmortem), novel, Cartea Românească Publishing House, 1972, “Sărbători fericite”(Happy Holidays), novel, Cartea Românească Publishing House, “Adio, Arizona”, (Spovedania unui naiv, făcută în fața unui autor din provincie) (Farewell, Arizona (Confessions of a Naïve to a Provincial Writer), Dacia Publishing House, 1974, “Paradisul pentru o mie de ani” (Paradise for a Thousand Years), novel, Eminescu Publishing House, 1974, “Evul mediu întâmplător” (Middle Ages By Chance), theater, Eminescu Publishing House, 1984, “Poezii”(Poems), Dacia Publishing House, 1986.