Dumitru Radu Popescu

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  Eugen Barbu

  Romanian modern novelist, short story writer, journalist, and correspondent member of the Romanian Academy.
  
  His most famous writings are the novels Groapa (1957) and Principele (1969). Barbu's prose, in which the influence of neorealism has been noted, drew comparison to the works of Mateiu Caragiale, Tudor Arghezi, and Curzio Malaparte.
  
  It was however, considered unequal by several critics, who took into measure Barbu's preference for archaisms, as well as his fluctuating narrative style.
  
  Barbu also wrote several film scripts,some of which were for films starring his wife, the actress Marga Barbu (Florin Piersic's Mărgelatu series).

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  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
  Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, W

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  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
  Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre

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  George Bernard Shaw

  George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
  
  An ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Societ

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  Elias Canetti

  Awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power."
  
  He studied in Vienna. Before World War II he moved with his wife Veza to England and stayed there for long time. Since late 1960s he lived in London and Zurich. In late 1980s he started to live in Zurich permanently. He died in 1994 in Zurich.
  
  Author of Auto-da-Fé, Party in the Blitz, Crowds and Power, and The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

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  Eugène Ionesco

  Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, was a Romanian playwright and dramatist; one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude and insignificance of human existence.
  
  Excerpted from Wikipedia.

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  Thomas Bernhard

  Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who ranks among the most distinguished German-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century.
  
  Although internationally he’s most acclaimed because of his novels, he was also a prolific playwright. His characters are often at work on a lifetime and never-ending major project while they deal with themes such as suicide, madness and obsession, and, as Bernhard did, a love-hate relationship with Austria. His prose is tumultuous but sober at the same time, philosophic by turns, with a musical cadence and plenty of black humor.
  
  He started publishing in the year 1963 with the novel Frost. His last published work, appearing in the year 1986, was Extinction. Some of his best-known works include The Loser

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  Edward Albee

  Noted American playwright Edward Franklin Albee explored the darker aspects of human relationships in plays like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and Three Tall Women (1991), which won his third Pulitzer Prize.
  
  People know Edward Franklin Albee III for works, including The Zoo Story , The Sandbox and The American Dream .
  He well crafted his works, considered often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflected a mastery and Americanization of the theater of the absurd, which found its peak in European playwrights, such as Jean Genet, Samuel Barclay Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. Younger Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel credits daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue of Albee with

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  Thomas Mann

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  See also:
  Serbian: Tomas Man
  
  Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important

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  Mircea Cărtărescu

  Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
  
  Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
  
  Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enc

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  Shelagh Delaney

  A British playwright, best known for her debut work, A Taste of Honey.

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  John Osborne

  
  People best know British playwright John James Osborne, member of the Angry Young Men, for his play Look Back in Anger (1956); vigorous social protest characterizes works of this group of English writers of the 1950s.
  
  This screenwriter acted and criticized the Establishment. The stunning success of Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre. In a productive life of more than four decades, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film and television. His extravagant and iconoclastic personal life flourished. He notoriously used language of the ornate violence on behalf of the political causes that he supported and against his own family, including his wives and children, who nevertheless often gave as good as they g

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  Fay Weldon

  Fay Weldon CBE was an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrayed contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Weldon

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  E.M. Forster

  Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. Forster, was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
  
  He had five novels published in his lifetime, achieving his greatest success with A Passage to India (1924) which takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj.
  
  Forster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of person

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  N. Richard Nash

  Nathan Richard Nusbaum , known as N. Richard Nash, was an American writer and dramatist best known for writing Broadway shows, including "The Rainmaker".
  
  Through the course of his lifetime, he wrote four plays, twelve screenplays, eight novels, two books on philosophy ("The Athenian Spirit" and "The Wounds of Sparta") and a book of poetry ("Absalom").
  
  "The Rainmaker" was adapted into the 1956 film "The Rainmaker" starring Burt Lancaster and Katherine Hepburn. His 1975 novel "Cry Macho" was adapted to film in 2021 and starred Clint Eastwood and Dwight Yoakam.
  
  He passed away on December 11, 2000 at the age of 87.

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  Mihail Sadoveanu

  Mihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the communist republic (1947–1948 and 1958). He is the most prolific novelist in Romanian literature and one of the most accomplished. All his major work, however, was written before the political changes in Romania following World War II. Although Sadoveanu remained a productive author after the war, like many other writers in communist countries, he had to adjust his aesthetic to meet the demands of the communist regime, and he wrote little of artistic value between 1945 and his death in 1961.
  
  Sadoveanu was born on 5 November 1880 in Pascani, a small town in Moldavia, to Alexandru and Profira (Ursachi)

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  Camil Petrescu

  Camil Petrescu was a Romanian playwright, novelist, poet and philosopher. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era in Romanian literature.

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  Simona Popescu

  Poetă, prozatoare şi eseistă română contemporană. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere a Universitaţii Bucureşti în 1987. In prezent este lector la aceeaşi facultate.
  Dintre volumele de poezie: Xilofonul și alte poeme (1990), Pauza de -respirație (1991/ împreună cu Andrei Bodiu, Caius Dobrescu și Marius Oprea), Juventus și alte poeme (1994), Noapte sau zi (1998), Lucrări în verde sau Pledoaria mea pentru poezie (2006), iar dintre volumele de eseistică: Volubilis (1998), Salvarea speciei, eseu biografic despre poetul suprarealist Gellu Naum, precum și romanul Exuvii (1997, 2004).

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  Nina Cassian

  Nina Cassian (pen name of Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru) was a Romanian poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic. She spent the first sixty years of her life in Romania until she moved to the United States in 1985 for a teaching job. A few years later Cassian was granted permanent asylum and New York City became her home for the rest of her life. Much of her work was published both in Romanian and in English.
  
  

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  Mihail Sebastian

  Mihail Sebastian, born Iosif Hechter, was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist.

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  Eugen Barbu

  Romanian modern novelist, short story writer, journalist, and correspondent member of the Romanian Academy.
  
  His most famous writings are the novels Groapa (1957) and Principele (1969). Barbu's prose, in which the influence of neorealism has been noted, drew comparison to the works of Mateiu Caragiale, Tudor Arghezi, and Curzio Malaparte.
  
  It was however, considered unequal by several critics, who took into measure Barbu's preference for archaisms, as well as his fluctuating narrative style.
  
  Barbu also wrote several film scripts,some of which were for films starring his wife, the actress Marga Barbu (Florin Piersic's Mărgelatu series).

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  Mateiu I. Caragiale

  Mateiu Ion Caragiale (Romanian: [maˈtej iˈon karaˈd͡ʒjale]) was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel Craii de Curtea-Veche, which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I. Caragiale's style, associated with Symbolism, the Decadent movement of the fin de siècle, and early modernism, was an original element in the Romanian literature of the interwar period. In other late contributions, Caragiale pioneered detective fiction locally, but there is disagreement over whether his work in the field produced a complete narrative or just fragments. The scarcity of writings he left is contrasted by their critical acclaim and a large, mostly posthumous, following, commonly known as mateists.
  
  Also known a

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  Vasile Voiculescu

  Vasile Voiculescu s-a născut în comuna Pârscov, judeţul Buzău, ca fiu al lui Costache Voiculescu, gospodar cu stare, şi al Sultanei (născută Hagiu), fiica unui negustor. Şcoala a început-o în satul Pleşcoi, Buzău în 1890. Cursul primar l-a absolvit la Buzău. A urmat studii liceale la Liceul „Alexandru Hâjdeu” şi apoi la Liceul Gheorghe Lazăr din Bucureşti. Preocupat de materialism, pozitivism şi evoluţionism, îi citeşte pe Littré Claude Bernard, Auguste Comte, Darwin şi Spencer. Studiază opera lui Wundt, Harald Høffding, Pierre Janet şi W. James, fiind atras de psihopatologie şi psihofizică.
  
  Studiile universitare le-a început la Facultatea de Litere şi Filosofie din Bucureşti (1902 - 1903) şi le-a continuat la Facultatea de Medicină, în 1903

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  Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu

  Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu a fost o prozatoare, romancieră și nuvelistă importantă din perioada interbelică.
  
  Debutează în presa culturală cu articole în limba franceză (1912). Scrie și poezii în această limbă.
  
  În anul 1913 publică la revista Viața românească, formarea sa ca scriitoare fiind marcată de personalitatea lui Garabet Ibrăileanu, cel care o ajuta sa debuteze. Debuteaza editorial in 1919 cu volumul "Ape adânci", lăudat de Garabet Ibrăileanu. În timpul Primului Război Mondial lucrează ca infirmieră voluntară la Crucea Roșie, experiența fiind apoi relatată în romanul Balaurul.
  
  Din anul 1919 începe să colaboreze cu cenaclul criticului Eugen Lovinescu și să publice în revista acestuia, Sburătorul. De acum, rolul hotărâtor în orientarea pr

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• Elena Vlădăreanu

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  Anton Chekhov

  Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
  
  Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
  
  "When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867

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• Ștefan Bănulescu

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