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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A fost o scriitoare și traducătoare română, sora sociologului H. H. Stahl și fiica scriitorului Henri Stahl.
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Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare (also spelled Kadaré) was an Albanian novelist and poet. He has been a leading literary figure in Albania since the 1960s. He focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of France. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, in 2009 the Prince of Asturias Award of Arts, and in 2015 the Jerusalem Prize. He has divided his time between Albania and France since 1990. Kadare has been mentioned as a possible recipient for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His works have been published in about 30 languages.
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Victor Hugo
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
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Thomas Mann
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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 -
Mircea Cărtărescu
Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
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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.
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Fay Weldon
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen -
Marin Sorescu
In 1964 the Romanian Communist government relaxed its censorship policies, signaling a new openness to free expression. The nation's poets heeded that signal, and Romanian poetry experienced a striking revival. Poet and playwright Marin Sorescu is perhaps one of the most popular figures to emerge from Romanian literary culture in the years since.
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Sorescu writes in a plainspoken, down-to-earth style spiced with sly humor. He responds to the hardships of Romanian life not with grand rhetoric or fire-and-brimstone sermons, but with what translator Michael Hamburger describes as "ironic verse fables," as quoted by Dennis Deletant in the Times Literary Supplement. Virgil Nemoianu, also writing in the Times Literary Supplement, comments that "[So -
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.
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Marin Preda
Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers.
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He was born in the Teleorman county, at Silistea-Gumesti, in the family of Tudor Calarasu.
He finished the first 7 classes in this village, he was then educated at the Normal School in Abrud, next at Cristuru-Odorhei, and after that in Bucharest.
He graduated the capacity exam, but eventually stopped going to school because of various reasons.
He became clerk at the Institute for Statistics in Bucharest, he was then press corrector at Timpul magazine, where he also made his debut in 1942 with the short story Pârlitu.
Encouraged, he published prose and was remarked by Eugen Lovinescu at the Sburatorul literary club.
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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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Liviu Rebreanu
Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.
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Born in Târlişua (currently Bistriţa-Năsăud County), Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was the second of thirteen children born to Vasile Rebreanu, a schoolteacher, and Ludovica Diuganu, descendants of peasants. His father had been a classmate of George Coşbuc's and was an amateur folklorist. Liviu Rebreanu went to primary school in Maieru (where he was taught by his father), and then in Năsăud and Bistriţa, to military school at Sopron and then to the military academy in Budapest. He worked as an officer in Gyula but resigned in 1908, and in 1909 illegally crossed the Transylvanian Alps into Romania, and lived in Bucharest.
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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.
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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). -
Cella Serghi
Cella Serghi (n. 4 noiembrie S.V. 22 octombrie 1907, Constanța, d. 19 septembrie 1992, București) a fost o scriitoare, publicistă și traducătoare română, una dintre cele mai importante prozatoare române ale literaturii interbelice.
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A debutat cu romanul Pânza de păianjen, fiind susținută de scriitori faimoși ai epocii, ca Liviu Rebreanu, Mihail Sebastian și Camil Petrescu. În anul 1977 a publicat la editura Cartea Românească un volum autobiografic intitulat Pe firul de păianjen al memoriei. -
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.
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Max Blecher
Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. Blecher attended primary and secondary school in Roman, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureat, Blecher left for Paris to study medicine. Shortly thereafter, in 1928, he was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis (Pott's disease) and forced to abandon his studies. He sought treatment at various sanatoriums: Berck-sur-Mer in France, Leysin in Switzerland and Tekirghiol in Romania.
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For the remaining ten years of his life, he was confined to his bed and practically immobilized by the disease. Despite his illness, he wrote and published his first piece in 1930, a short story called "Herrant" in Tudor Arghezi's literary magazine Bilete de papagal. He contributed -
Anton Holban
Scriitor, romancier și eseist român, Anton Holban s-a născut pe 10 februarie 1902 la Huși. Este fiul lui Gheorghe Holban, ofițer, și al Antoanetei (născută Lovinescu), precum și nepotul de soră al criticului Eugen Lovinescu. Urmează cursurile școlii primare "Al.I.Cuza" din Fălticeni, și cursurile Facultății de Litere din București, secția limba și literatura franceză.
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Anton Holban frecventează cenaclul lui Eugen Lovinescu, Sburătorul, unde citește povestiri și fragmente din romane. În perioada 1928-1932 activează ca profesor de limba franceză la Liceul de Baieți "V. Alecsandri" din Galați, iar în 1934 este transferat la Seminarul Central din București.
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Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rodica Ojog-Brasoveanu was a Romanian writer of mystery novels. She published 35 novels, most of them mystery, some of them also romantic and historic novels. She is believed to be the "Lady of the Romanian policier".
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Her cozy mystery series are aundant with humor and have a quick, light pace.
Some recurring characters:
- Melania Lupu, an elderly lady getting involved in crime solving, with a unique and charming style; the authority figure whose cases she gets involved in is Major Cristescu
- Minerva Tutovan, an authoritarian figure, a severe and extremely smart, unattractive woman; the authority figure whose cases she meddles with is Lieutanant Dobrescu
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Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu a fost o prozatoare, romancieră și nuvelistă importantă din perioada interbelică.
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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 -
Mihail Drumeş
Mihail Drumeş (n. Mihail V. Dumitrescu, 26 noiembrie 1901, Ohrida, Macedonia - d. 7 februarie 1982, Bucureşti) a fost un romancier român, foarte popular in perioada interbelică.
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Fiul lui Vasilie Dimitrie (devenit Dumitrescu) şi al Despinei (n. Gero). Familia sa, la origine aromână, se stabileşte în Oltenia.
Liceul l-a urmat la Caracal şi Craiova, bacalaureatul l-a obţinut în 1925. Urmează Facultatea de litere şi filozofie a Universităţii din Bucureşti, absolvită în 1928. O vreme funcţionează ca profesor de liceu, va trece mai apoi în învăţământul superior.
Debut la revista Flamura în 1922, debut editorial cu volumul de nuvele şi schiţe Capcana in 1927. Între anii 1922 şi 1924 Teatrul Naţional din Craiova îi înscrie în repertoriu piesa Rămăşagu -
George Călinescu
George Călinescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe kəliˈnesku]) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies.
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He is currently considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time, alongside Titu Maiorescu and Eugen Lovinescu, and is one of the outstanding figures of Romanian literature in the 20th century. -
Narine Abgaryan
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Dumitru Radu Popescu
Dumitru Radu Popescu born August 19, 1935 is a Romanian novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist, short story writer, and formerly communist politician. A former member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (1979-1980), he is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and was, between 1980 and 1990, Chairman of the Romanian Writers' Union.
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His 1973 novel Vînatoarea Regală ("The Royal Hunt") was translated into English in 1988.
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Zülfü Livaneli
Müzisyen, Yazar, Yönetmen, Politikacı.
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Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve uluslararası ödül almış ve eserleri John Baez, Maria Farandouri gibi sanatçılar tarafından yorumlanmıştır. Kültür, sanat ve politika alanında Türkiye’nin önemli isimlerinden birisi olan sanatçı, sanat yaşamı boyunca 300’e yakın besteye ve 30 film müziğine imzasını attı.
Bugüne kadar üç uzun metrajlı film yönetti; "Yer Demir Gök Bakır", "Sis" ve "Şahmeran". Valencia Film Festivali'nde "Altın Palmiye" ve 1989'da Montpelier Film Festivali'nde "Altın Antigone" ödülüne layık görüldü. "Sis", "En iyi Avrupa Film Ödülü"ne aday gösterildi. Sanatçının filmleri -
Gheorghe Crăciun
Gheorghe Craciun (1950-2007), prozator, eseist, teoretician literar si editor, unul dintre reprezentantii de marca ai postmodernismului romanesc, a absolvit Facultatea de Filologie din Bucuresti si a fost profesor la Facultatea de Litere a Universitatii „Transilvania” din Brasov si director editorial la Editura Paralela 45. A publicat romane – Acte originale/Copii legalizate (1982), Compunere cu paralele inegale (1988), tradus in limba franceza de Odile Serre si publicat in 2001, cu titlul Composition aux paralleles inegales, la Editura Maurice Nadeau, insotit de o consistenta prefata, semnata de Serge Fauchereau, Frumoasa fara corp (1993), Pupa russa (2004) –, volume de eseuri, teorie literara si publicistica, precum si volumul de proza sc
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Dumitru Radu Popescu
Dumitru Radu Popescu born August 19, 1935 is a Romanian novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist, short story writer, and formerly communist politician. A former member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (1979-1980), he is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and was, between 1980 and 1990, Chairman of the Romanian Writers' Union.
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His 1973 novel Vînatoarea Regală ("The Royal Hunt") was translated into English in 1988.
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Maria Banuș
Marioara Banuș was a Romanian poet, essayist, prose writer and translator.
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Born into a Jewish family in Bucharest, her parents were Max Banuș, an accountant and later a director at the Carol Street branch of Marmorosch Blank Bank, and his wife Anette (née Marcus). Due to her fragile health, she began primary school with private lessons, taking tests at the Lucaci Street School from 1920 to 1923.
She attended high school at the Pompilian Institute from 1923 to 1931, and from 1931 to 1934, studied at the University of Bucharest's faculties of law and literature. She made her published debut as an adolescent, with the poem "14 ani", which appeared in Bilete de Papagal in 1928, under her birth name Marioara Banuș. In 1932, while she was a student