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.
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.
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Ionel Teodoreanu
Ionel Teodoreanu was a famous Romanian novelist between the two World Wars. He is mostly remembered for his books on childhood and adolescence themes. Born in Iaşi into a family of intellectuals, Teodoreanu followed his father (Osvald Teodoreanu) and older brother (Păstorel Teodoreanu, himself a well-known writer) in studying law and becoming a lawyer. After graduating the National Highschool in Iaşi, he obtained his Law degree in 1919. Although he worked as a lawyer, he was more attracted to literature.
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He made his debut in 1919, with the Bunicii ("The Grandparents") sketch, in the review Însemnări literare. His editorial debut was represented by the short story volume Uliţa copilăriei ("Childhood Lane", 1923). Like his brother Păstorel - a -
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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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Lucian Blaga
Lucian Blaga was a Romanian philosopher, poet, and playwright. He was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the inter-bellum period. He was a philosopher and writer higly acclaimed for his originality, a university professor and a diplomat.
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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.
Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enc -
Gib I. Mihăescu
Gib I. Mihăescu (n. 23 aprilie 1894, Drăgăşani - d. 19 octombrie 1935, Bucureşti ), a fost un prozator, romancier şi un dramaturg român interbelic.
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A absolvit cursurile Colegiului Naţional "Carol I" din Craiova.
Este autorul volumelor de nuvele Grandiflora în 1928 şi Vedenia în 1929, al unor romane de analiză psihologică a apariţiei unor stări obsesive, îndeosebi erotice: Rusoaica (tradus şi în limba slovacă), Braţul Andromedei, Femeia de ciocolată, Zilele şi nopţile unui student întârziat, Donna Alba. A scris şi piese de teatru (adunate în volumul Pavilionul cu umbre) şi a purtat o interesantă corespondenţă cu Cezar Petrescu, Corneliu Moldovanu, Apriliana Medianu şi Susanne Dovalova, din Bratislava.
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Mircea Eliade
Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in the last century. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. He earned international fame with LE MYTHE DE L'ÉTERNAL RETOUR (1949, The Myth of the Eternal Return), an interpretation of religious symbols and imagery. Eliade was much interested in the world of the unconscious. The central theme in his novels was erotic love.
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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. -
Vasile Alecsandri
Vasile Alecsandri (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile aleksanˈdri]) was a Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folk songs and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia.
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Nicolae Filimon
Born in Bucharest as the son of an Eastern Orthodox parish priest of the Enei Church, Filimon was a cantor and an autodidact. According to Ion Ghica's Letters, he was briefly employed by theater companies after his father's death in 1830, singing in a theater choir and playing the flute.
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In late 1857, Filimon made his literary debut with pieces written for the Naţionalul newspaper. During the following year, he travelled to the German Confederation, and published his account as Excursiuni în Germania meridională ("Voyages to Southern Germany"), which also included the Romanticist novellas Mănăstirea domenicanilor după colina Fiesole (later known as Mateo Cipriani) and O baroneasă de poronceală. His experience and relative success as a journa -
Mihai Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj emiˈnesku]; born Mihail Eminovici) was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet.
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Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and he worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"), the official newspaper of the Conservative Party (1880–1918).
His first poems volume was published when he was 16 and he went to Vienna to study when he was 19. The poet's manuscripts, containing 46 volumes and approximately 14,000 pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romanian Academy during the meeting that was held on January 25, 1902.
Notable works include Luceafărul (Evening Star), Odă în metru antic (Ode -
Ion Creangă
Ion Creangă was a Moldavian-born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes.
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Creangă's main contribution to fantasy and children's literature includes narratives structured around eponymous protagonists (Povestea lui Harap Alb, Ivan Turbincă, Dănilă Prepeleac), as well as fairy tales indebted to conventional forms (Povestea porcului, Capra cu trei iezi, Soacra cu trei nurori).
Like Swift or Mark Twain, Creangă is more than a story-teller for children or simply a humorist. His work is a human and social document of the ways of thinking and the life of a Romanian village in the ninetee -
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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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 -
Ion Druță
Ion Panteley Drutse was born in the village of Horodishte Dondusheny district, Moldova republic in 1928. He graduated from the higher literary courses of the Institute of Literature "A.M. Gorky" of the Union of Writers of the USSR. He began his literary career in 1953 with his collection of stories In Our Village, followed by A Story of Love next year. During three decades there appeared many novels, stories, plays and books for children: The yearning for People, Ant's Story, Trofimash, The Big Sitting Room, From Green to Green, The Belfry, The White Church, The Birds of Our Youth and others.
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He was awarded the State Prize of Moldova as a playwright and prose writer.
He is a member of Moldova's Union of writers but he lives in Moscow.
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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 -
Mihail Sebastian
Mihail Sebastian, born Iosif Hechter, was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist.
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Grigore Băjenaru
Grigore Popescu-Băjenaru was a Romanian writer. His best known novel is "Cişmigiu et Comp.", that presents his adventures as a student of Gheorghe Lazăr High School, situated near the Cişmigiu Gardens in central Bucharest, in the interwar period. It was a best-seller for several decades, and still popular among high school students. Its sequel is "Bună dimineaţa, băieţi!", presenting moments from his career as a teacher.
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He was born in Periş, near Bucharest. After attending high school, he studied literature and philosophy at the University of Bucharest. He worked as a teacher at several private and state schools, and later took administrative jobs at Bucharest City Hall, the Astronomical Observatory and at the Art Gallery. -
Duiliu Zamfirescu
Duiliu Zamfirescu (născut la Plăinești (azi Dumbrăveni), plasa Râmnicul de Sus, județul Râmnicu-Sărat (azi județul Vrancea) mort la Agapia, județul Neamț) a fost un scriitor român, membru titular și vicepreședinte al Academiei Române.
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A scris versuri, proză scurtă, piese de teatru, dar cea mai importantă contribuție a sa la literatura română o reprezintă romanele sale din Ciclul Comăneștenilor (Viața la țară, Tănase Scatiu, În război, Îndreptări și Anna). Acestea se constituie în primul ciclu din literatura română, asemănător ciclului Les Rougon-Macquart al lui Emile Zola. Cele cinci volume au fost scrise departe de țară, la Roma, când autorul lucra la legația română din Italia. La acestea se adaugă primul roman epistolar din literatura noas -
Tudor Chirilă
Tudor Chirilă s-a născut la București, în data de 28 mai 1974, fiind fiul jurnalistului sportiv Ioan Chirilă şi al actriţei Iarina Demian.
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Este fostul solist vocal al trupei Vama Veche şi actualul solist al trupei Vama.
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Ion Luca Caragiale
Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humor. Alongside Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life.
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His work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences.
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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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George Bacovia
George Bacovia (the pen name of George Vasiliu; September 17 [O.S. September 4] 1881–May 22, 1957) was a Romanian symbolist poet.[1]
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Bacovia was born in Bacău as the son of a merchant, Dimitrie Vasiliu, and Zoiţa Vasiliu (née Gheorghe Langa). He married Agatha Grigorescu in 1928, and then moved to Bucharest where he lived until his death. -
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, commonly known as Corneliu Codreanu, was a Romanian politician who was the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard, an ultranationalistic, antisemitic, Magyarophobic, and anti-gypsy organization active throughout most of the interwar period.
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Gisella Perl
Gisella Perl was a Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women as inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work. She survived, emigrated to New York and was one of the first women to publicize these experiences in English in her 1948 memoir I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz.
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Jonathan W. Stokes
Jonathan Stokes is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. He has written on assignment for Fox, Paramount, Universal, Warner Brothers, New Line, and Sony. He is the author of several upcoming kids' books being published by Penguin Random House. Jonathan is a street taco aficionado, an urban explorer, and koala enthusiast.
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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.
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Sadoveanu was born on 5 November 1880 in Pascani, a small town in Moldavia, to Alexandru and Profira (Ursachi) -
Constantin Negruzzi
Constantin (Costache) Negruzzi (n. 1808, satul Hermeziu, judeţul Iaşi – d. 24 august 1868) a fost un om politic şi scriitor român din perioada paşoptistă.
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Născut în Trifeştii Vechi (astăzi Hermeziu), din apropierea Prutului, lângă Iaşi, este fiul lui Dinu Negruzzi, de origine răzăşească, ajuns boiernaş în rang de paharnic, şi al Sofiei Hermeziu. Şi-a început învăţătura în greaca cu unul din dascălii greci mai cu renume pe atunci în Iaşi, iar româneşte învăţă singur dintr-o carte a lui Petru Maior, precum însuşi mărturiseşte într-un articol intitulat Cum am învăţat româneşte, foarte interesant pentru detaliile pe care le dă asupra metodelor întrebuinţate de profesorii din acea vreme.
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Mircea Eliade
Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in the last century. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. He earned international fame with LE MYTHE DE L'ÉTERNAL RETOUR (1949, The Myth of the Eternal Return), an interpretation of religious symbols and imagery. Eliade was much interested in the world of the unconscious. The central theme in his novels was erotic love.
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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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Sadoveanu was born on 5 November 1880 in Pascani, a small town in Moldavia, to Alexandru and Profira (Ursachi) -
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.
He joined several -
Ion Creangă
Ion Creangă was a Moldavian-born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes.
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Creangă's main contribution to fantasy and children's literature includes narratives structured around eponymous protagonists (Povestea lui Harap Alb, Ivan Turbincă, Dănilă Prepeleac), as well as fairy tales indebted to conventional forms (Povestea porcului, Capra cu trei iezi, Soacra cu trei nurori).
Like Swift or Mark Twain, Creangă is more than a story-teller for children or simply a humorist. His work is a human and social document of the ways of thinking and the life of a Romanian village in the ninetee -
Ion Luca Caragiale
Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humor. Alongside Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life.
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His work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences.
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Ioan Slavici
Ioan Slavici was a Transylvanian-born Romanian writer and journalist. He made his debut in Convorbiri literare ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy Fata de birău ("The Mayor's Daughter"). Alongside Eminescu he founded the Young Romania Social and Literary Academic Society and organized, in 1871, the Putna Celebration of the Romanian Students from Romania and from abroad. At the end of 1874, he settled in Bucharest, where he became secretary of the Hurmuzachi Collection Committee, then he became a professor, and then an editor of the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"). Alongside I. L. Caragiale and G. Coşbuc, he edited the Vatra ("The Heath") review. During the first World War, he collaborated at the newspapers Ziua ("Daytime") and
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Constantin Negruzzi
Constantin (Costache) Negruzzi (n. 1808, satul Hermeziu, judeţul Iaşi – d. 24 august 1868) a fost un om politic şi scriitor român din perioada paşoptistă.
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Născut în Trifeştii Vechi (astăzi Hermeziu), din apropierea Prutului, lângă Iaşi, este fiul lui Dinu Negruzzi, de origine răzăşească, ajuns boiernaş în rang de paharnic, şi al Sofiei Hermeziu. Şi-a început învăţătura în greaca cu unul din dascălii greci mai cu renume pe atunci în Iaşi, iar româneşte învăţă singur dintr-o carte a lui Petru Maior, precum însuşi mărturiseşte într-un articol intitulat Cum am învăţat româneşte, foarte interesant pentru detaliile pe care le dă asupra metodelor întrebuinţate de profesorii din acea vreme.
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Ioan Slavici
Ioan Slavici was a Transylvanian-born Romanian writer and journalist. He made his debut in Convorbiri literare ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy Fata de birău ("The Mayor's Daughter"). Alongside Eminescu he founded the Young Romania Social and Literary Academic Society and organized, in 1871, the Putna Celebration of the Romanian Students from Romania and from abroad. At the end of 1874, he settled in Bucharest, where he became secretary of the Hurmuzachi Collection Committee, then he became a professor, and then an editor of the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"). Alongside I. L. Caragiale and G. Coşbuc, he edited the Vatra ("The Heath") review. During the first World War, he collaborated at the newspapers Ziua ("Daytime") and
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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 -
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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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 -
Constantin Chiriță
Constantin Chirita was born in a family of teachers and he was a well known fiction writer, his books were targeted to the younger readers.
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He was a student at the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, after which he dedicated all his time to literature and journalistic.
He came into the literature world in 1949. He also was a good essay writer. In his novels he presented the image of the university and technocrat world.
Constantin Chirita is the author of a well known series of novels called: Ciresarii. They were transformed in the 80 into a television show and enjoyed a great success. -
Adina Popescu
Born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1978, Adina Popescu has a BA in Film Directing, but she’s been working as a cultural journalist since she was 18.
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In 1999, Adina published her first children’s book, Doar un zbor în jurul lumii (Just a Flight Over the World). Other books followed, showing her interest in children’s literature: Miriapodul hoinar şi alte poveşti (The Wandering Myriapod and Other Stories), Mari poveşti româneşti pe înţelesul celor mici (Romanian Tales for Young Readers), Aventurile lui Doxi în benzi desenate (Doxi’s Adventures in Comic Strips), the latter together with Alexandru Ciubotariu.
In 2015, she published Povestiri de pe Calea Moşilor (Stories from Calea Moșilor), a book initially written for adult readers, but which also -
Anița Nandriș-Cudla
Anița Nandriș-Cudla (1904-1986) s-a născut într-o familie de ţărani din Bucovina. 13 000 de români din acest ţinut au trăit, în iunie 1941, groaza deportării. Între ei, şi Aniţa cu întreaga familie. Au fost duşi dincolo de Cercul Polar, într-un univers al ostilităţii, unde timp de 20 de ani nimic în afara iubirii şi a credinţei nu le-a fost sprijin. De abia ştiutoare de carte, întoarsă acasă, Aniţa a scris în cuvinte simple povestea acestei supravieţuiri.
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Este o mărturie unică, păstrată printr-o minune timp de peste două decenii, până a putut fi publicată. Cartea Aniţei a fost distinsă de Academia Română cu Premiul „Lucian Blaga“ (1992). -
Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist.
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Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈtudor arˈɡezi]; 21 May 1880 – 14 July 1967) was a Romanian writer, best known for his contribution to poetry and children's literature. Born Ion N. Theodorescu in Bucharest (where he also died), he explained that his pen name was related to Argesis, the Latin name for the Argeş River.
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Arghezi is perhaps the most striking figure of Romanian interwar literature, and one of the major poets of the 20th century. The freshness of his vocabulary represents a most original synthesis between the traditional styles and modernism. He has left behind a vast oeuvre, which includes poetry, novels, essays, journalism, translations and letters.
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Rukhsana Ahmad
Rukhsana Ahmad has written and adapted several plays for the stage and radio, achieving distinction in both. Her play River on Fire was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn International Prize. Her first novel, The Hope Chest, was published by Virago. We Sinful Women, her pioneering translation of Urdu feminist poetry, is widely acclaimed. Rukhsana is a co-founder of Kali Theatre Company, London. She has served as a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Marys, University of London. The Gatekeepers Wife and other stories, is an anthology of her short fiction.
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Radu Tudoran
He was born in Blejoi, Prahova County, Romania, at 8 March 1910, his real name Nicolae Bogza, being the brother of Geo Bogza. His manifested strong nostalgia for traveling on the seas, he probably inherited from his father, Alexandru Bogza, clerk of the commercial marine.
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After he finishes the Military High school from Manastirea Dealu in 1930 and, than, the Military School from Sibiu in 1932, he works for 6 years (1932-1938), as an Officer of Romanian Army.
He gives up to his military career in 1938, year in which he makes his debut with a story in the “Lumea Româ
neasca” (“Romanian World”) magazine, led by Zaharia Stancu. There is an obvious connection between his resignation from army and his first literary successes. In the same year, he c -
Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea
Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea (pen name of Barbu Ștefan; April 11, 1858 in Bucharest – April 29, 1918 in Iași) was a Romanian writer and poet, considered one of the greatest figures in the National awakening of Romania.
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Garabet Ibrăileanu
Garabet Ibraileanu(Romanian pronunciation: [ɡaraˈbet ibrə.iˈle̯anu]) was a Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, Iaşi University professor (1908-1934), and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, for long main editor of the Viaţa Românească literary magazine between 1906 and 1930. He published many of his works under the pen name Cezar Vraja.
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John Farndon
John Farndon is an internationally known author, as well as a playwright, composer and songwriter, whose work has been performed at such theatres as the Donmar and Almeida in London and the Salisbury Playhouse and selected for showcases, such as Beyond the Gate.
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He has written hundreds of books, which have sold millions of copies around the world in most major languages and include many best-sellers, such as the award-winning Do Not Open, which received rave reviews in the USA and became a cult-hit as well as featuring on the New York Times and Washington Post best-seller lists. In earlier years, he wrote mostly for children, and has been shortlisted a record four times for the junior Science Book prize. Books such as How Science Works and H -
Tudor Mușatescu
Tudor Muşatescu was a Romanian playwright and short story writer, best known for his humorous prose.
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Muşatescu was born in Câmpulung to a family of middle-class intellectuals — his father was a lawyer while his mother was a writer. He began writing during his early years in school. He completed studies at the University of Bucharest where he earned a degree in Law and one in Literature.
Much of his work centers on provincial life in his native city, and includes political satires such as Titanic Vals (arguably, his most influential writing). -
Filip Florian
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.
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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 -
Ileana Vulpescu
Ileana Vulpescu (n. 21 mai 1932, Bratovoești, județul Dolj) este o prozatoare și romancieră română.
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După o licență in litere (limba și literatura franceză), la Facultatea de Filologie a Universității din București (1953-1958), a lucrat ca lexicograf la Institutul de Lingvistică al Academiei și a colaborat la redactarea lucrărilor Dicționarul limbii române și Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române (1959-1975).
A fost soția poetului și traducătorului Romulus Vulpescu.
Cel mai cunoscut roman al ei este Arta conversației, care a reușit să ajungă best-seller înainte de 1989.
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Henriette Yvonne Stahl
A fost o scriitoare și traducătoare română, sora sociologului H. H. Stahl și fiica scriitorului Henri Stahl.
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Intre anii 1952-1957 a fost căsătorită cu scriitorul Petru Dumitriu. -
Florin Lăzărescu
Prozator si scenarist iesean. Absolvent al Facultatii de Litere, Universitatea „Al.I. Cuza”, Iasi (1998). A publicat romanele Ce se stie despre ursul panda (2003), Trimisul nostru special (2005; tradus in franceza, germana, spaniola, italiana, slovena, maghiara si croata) si volumul de povestiri Lampa cu caciula (2009). Coautor, impreuna cu Lucian Dan Teodorovici si Dan Lungu, al volumului de povestiri Pas question de Dracula... (Editions Non Lieu, Paris, 2007).
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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.
Scriitorul își face debutul în anul 1928 în revista lui Liviu Rebreanu, "Mișcarea literară -
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). -
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.
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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 -
Nina de Pass
Nina de Pass started writing The Year After You, her first novel, while on a creative writing course at the Faber Academy. Nina has an MA in French and Spanish from the University of Edinburgh, and now lives and works in London.
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Victor Ion Popa
Victor Ion Popa a fost un om de teatru și literat polivalent care a adus, prin opera sa dramatică, regizorală și pedagogică, o contribuție însemnată la evoluția teatrului românesc dintre cele două războaie mondiale.
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Piesele sale alternează între tabloul idilic care face să dispară contradicțiile realității și drama sumbră, cu referire de critică socială, cu final ce alunecă spre tragic. Pentru tematică se refugiază în lumea burgheză, sătească, viața pitorească, sau în liniștea târgului patriarhal. Victor Ion Popa a considerat că piesele sale au nevoie de cultivarea tradiției patriarhale, respectiv de combatarea arivismului și a prostiei. -
Ion Minulescu
RO: Ion Minulescu (n. 6 ianuarie 1881, Bucureşti - d. 11 aprilie 1944, Bucureşti) a fost un poet şi prozator român, reprezentant important al Simbolismului românesc. Ion Minulescu este numit director general al artelor în 1922.
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Născut la Bucureşti, a copilărit la Slatina, de unde este originară mama sa. A urmat şcoala primară şi gimnaziul la Piteşti; şi-a dat bacalaureatul în 1899 la un pension particular din Bucureşti, "Brânză şi Arghirescu". În 1897, sub pseudominul (I. M.) Nirvan apar primele producţii poetice ale lui Ion Minulescu, atunci încă elev la Piteşti, în revista "Povestea vorbei". În 1898, sub semnătura I. Minulescu-Nirvan, tânărul poet publică în "Foaia pentru toţi", doi ani mai târziu poetul pleacă la Paris pentru a studia dre -
Ion Barbu
Ion Barbu pe numele său adevărat Dan Barbilian (n. 18 martie 1895, Câmpulung-Muşcel, d. 11 august 1961, Bucureşti) a fost un poet şi matematician român. A fost unul dintre cei mai importanţi poeţi români interbelici, reprezentant al modernismului literar românesc.
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Unicul fiu al magistratului Constantin Barbilian şi al Smarandei (n. Soiculescu), fiica de procuror. Pseudonimul care l-a făcut celebru în poezie este, de fapt, numele originar al familiei, transformat printr-o latinizare curentă.
Studiile elementare şi gimnaziale le face la Câmpulung, Damineşti, Stâlpeni, Piteşti. Urmează liceul la Bucureşti. Demonstrează de pe acum deosebite aptitudini de matematician. După ce îşi susține licenţa (1921) obţine o bursă pentru doctorat în Germania. -
Eugen Barbu
Romanian modern novelist, short story writer, journalist, and correspondent member of the Romanian Academy.
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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). -
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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Angela Marinescu
Numele Angela Marinescu este un pseudonim, numele real fiind Basaraba-Angela Marcovici. A folosit și pseudonimul Basaraba Matei. Este fiica lui Marius Marcovici, funcționar superior la Prefectura orașului Arad, și a Mariei (n. Martiș), profesoară de educație fizică și campioană națională la schi și la înot. Tatăl poetei descinde din familia lui Simion Marcovici, important intelectual al Banatului, la care a poposit în peregrinările sale Mihai Eminescu. Este mama poetului și publicistului Alexandru Matei. Angela Marinescu a făcut gimnastică la sol (era cea mai bună din Arad), înot și volei. O tuberculoză gravă i-a marcat tinerețea, mai exact între 15 și 26 de ani. S-a decis să studieze medicina, absolvind în final Facultatea de Psihologie de
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Alexandru Mitru
(n. 6 noiembrie 1914, Craiova, d. 1989) a fost un prozator român, autor de literatură pentru copii şi tineret. Printre scrierile sale se numără Legendele Olimpului şi volumul de poveşti Căciula fermecată.
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Legendele Olimpului, ciclu de povestiri inspirate din mitologia greacă, au jucat un rol însemnat în apropierea publicului tânăr din România de bazele gândirii şi de istoria mitică a Greciei Antice. Lucrarea poate fi pusă în corespondenţă cu Legendele şi miturile Greciei Antice, elaborată de către autorul rus N.A. Kun.
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Primii ani
S-a născut într-o familie de muncitori săraci. După şcoala primară şi-a continuat studiile la Liceele „Carol I” şi „Fraţii Buzeşti”, anii petrecuţi în liceu lăsându-i puternice şi frumoase amintiri: „Trebuie -
Petre Ispirescu
Petre Ispirescu was a Romanian editor, folklorist, printer and publicist. He is best known for his work as a gatherer of Romanian folk tales, recounting them with a remarkable talent.
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Petre Ispirescu began to publish Romanian folk stories in 1862, at the incentive of N. Filimon. His first collection of six folk tales appears in Taranul Roman and later as a booklet. Subsequently these tales were added to his renowned collection Romanian Fairy Tales, today a bibliographic rarity. He resumes his publishing work in 1872 with the collection Romanian Folk Tales. Riddles and Proverbs with a preface by B.P. Hasdeu, followed by Folk Anecdotes and Folk Tales in 1874 and The Life and Feats of Mihai Viteazu in 1876. He is praised for the deep and invalu -
Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir (Romanian pronunciation: [diˈmitri.e kanteˈmir], also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian soldier, statesman, and man of letters. He was twice voivode of Moldavia (March–April 1693 and 1710–1711). During his second term, he allied his state with Russia in their war against Moldavia's Ottoman overlords; Russia's defeat forced Cantemir's family into exile and the replacement of the native voivodes by the Greek phanariots. Cantemir was also a prolific writer, variously a philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer. His son Antioch, Russia's ambassador to Great Britain and France and a friend of Montesquieu and Voltaire, would go on to be known as "the father of Rus
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Valeriu Anania
Valeriu Anania is a Romanian Orthodox bishop, translator, writer and poet; currently he is the Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba, Crişana and Maramureş (Bartolomeu Anania).
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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