Welcome to my world!
I am Diana Lis — a writer, traveler, passionate about dance and photography, and, above all, fascinated by the mysteries of life.
I left my legal career behind to write my own story.
It all began in Oradea – Romania,
the city where I was born
and grew up surrounded by
Art Nouveau buildings
and monuments,
palaces and streets
steeped in history.
A place that showed me,
from the very beginning,
the beauty of the world.
I am the little girl who made up stories.
The teenager who wrote them in silence.
The woman who forged her own path.
The traveler who, one day, lost her manuscripts in Egypt.
The writer who eventually understood that some stories are not given to us to keep only for ourselves.
They are all me.
Life is, above all, magic. And the most beautiful kind of magic is the one that inspires others to believe in their own story.
You simply have to create your dream, step by step — just as a writer writes a book, a painter paints a canvas, and a sculptor gives shape to a statue.
I have published five novels, and Maktub is perhaps the story into which I have poured the most of the way I see life.
As a mysterious encounter between the choices we make and what seems to have been destined for us.
I am the woman behind the words.
The woman who dances.
Who travels.
Who takes photographs.
Who searches.
Who sometimes falls.
Who rises again.
Who changes her mind.
Who loves beauty and mystery.
Who travels thousands of miles
to discover something that, perhaps,
has always been within her.
I find myself in the word Maktub — “It is written” — believing that there are things life places before us, and that we choose how to answer their call.
I believe this is where everyone’s story begins.
Your story.
The moment you stop living according to other people’s expectations and begin to ask yourself:
Who am I, beyond all the roles I play?
What makes me feel alive?
What story do I want to leave behind?
I don’t have all the answers.
Perhaps I don’t even want to.
I tell stories that may inspire you to find your own, and I want what I create to make you pause for a moment and ask yourself what your own voice is saying.
Perhaps the story of your own life began long ago, without you even realizing it.
Perhaps you have wandered through a few chapters.
Perhaps you have spent too long living in a story written by someone else.
Or perhaps you simply feel that somewhere, beyond the life you know, another part of you is still waiting to be discovered.
I invite you to discover it.
To listen to its call.
To follow its thread.
To have the courage to change its course when it no longer reflects who you are.
To live it with all that you are.
And, little by little, to become your own story.
Diana Lis
