The author of dozens of other popular books, such as The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The End of the Affair and Brighton Rock, to name just a few, Graham Greene arrived in Romania at the end of August 1962, having been invited to visit country by the Romanian Writers Union, and was to spend two weeks here.
Greene was shown around the capital, Bucharest, and taken on trips out into the countryside, around Transylvania and to the Black Sea coast, where he met local writers and spoke to the local press. He also gave a very short interview to Radio Bucharest, as the international service of Radio Romania was known back then.
Andrei Gorzo, who translated three of Graham Greene’s books into Romanian, offered an insight into the British writer’s popularity behind the Iron Curtain, including in Romania.