IntroductionLiterary translation has recently gained attention as a distinct and complex task in machine translation research, yet translation by small open models remains an open problem, particularly for low-resource languages such as Romanian.MethodsWe introduce the TinyFabulist Translation Framework (TF2), a unified framework for dataset creation, fine-tuning, and evaluation in English → Romanian literary translation. Building on DS-TF1-EN-3M, the largest collection of synthetic English fabl