Between 1990-99, he worked as a journalist and editor for the Cuvîntul (The Word) weekly and then as a correspondent for the Free Europe and Deutsche Welle radio stations. He spent five years in the mountain town of Sinaia writing his first novel Little Fingers, which was published to great critical acclaim in 2005. Greeted as the work of a distinctive and original new voice, the novel was awarded the România literarã (Literary Romania) magazine Prize for Debut, the Romanian Writers’ Union Prize for Best Prose Debut, and the National Union of Employers Prize for Excellence.

Together with Matei Florian, his younger brother, Filip Florian recently published the unusual dialogic novel The Băiuț Alley Lads (2006), also warmly praised by critics and the reading public alike. In 2007, second editions of both books were printed. Little Fingers has been published in Hungary (Magvetö, 2008), Germany (Suhrkamp, 2008) and Poland (Czarne, 2008) and will be published in the USA (Harcourt, 2009) and Slovenia (Didakta, 2009). The Băiuț Alley Lads is also due to be published by Czarne in 2009, and is also due to be published in Spain (Acantilado) and Bulgaria (Panorama +). The Days of the King has been published in Hungary (Magvetö, 2009), and will be published in the USA in 2011 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).