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Pam Muñoz Ryan

Pam Muñoz Ryan is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, ECHO, a 2016 Newbery Honor Book, and winner of the Kirkus Prize. She has written over forty books for young people—picture books, early readers, and middle grade and young adult novels. She the author recipient of the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award, the Willa Cather Award, the Pura Belpré medal, the PEN USA award, and many others. Her novels include Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi León, Paint the Wind, The Dreamer, and Echo. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, holds a bachelor's and master's degree from San Diego State University and lives in north San Diego county with her family.

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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.

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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Mihai Mănescu

Writer, producer & communications specialist with a vast experience in the Romanian NGO environment, Mihai Manescu has graduated the National University of Theatre and Film from Bucharest in 2007.
Inspired by the MA of Western Esotericism that he received at the University of Exeter, Mihai has become a PhD in Cinema & Media in 2011 with an interdisciplinary thesis on Screenwriting, Mythology and History of Religion.
Passionate about Children Literature and Literacy, Mihai created the Romanian Literacy HUB for children: Minipovesti.ro

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Liviu Rebreanu

Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.

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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Lisa Graff

Lisa Graff is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the National Book Award nominee A Tangle of Knots, as well as Lost in the Sun, Absolutely Almost, Double Dog Dare, Umbrella Summer, The Life and Crimes of Bernetta Wallflower, The Thing About Georgie and Sophie Simon Solves Them All. Originally from California, she lived for many years in New York City and now makes her home just outside of Philadelphia.

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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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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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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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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.

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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Caroline Jones

Caroline Jones was named Health Journalist of the Year in 2014 by the HMFA and was formerly Woman's Editor of the Daily Mirror.
Caroline lives in London with her husband Colin, daughter Mia, and dog Rufus.

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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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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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.
Izbucnind revoluţia din 1821, a fugit în Basarabia cu tatăl

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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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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.

His work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences.

Althou

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Liviu Rebreanu

Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.

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

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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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Cezar Petrescu

S-a născut la Hodora-Cotnari, județul Iași, fiu al inginerului Dimitrie Petrescu, profesor la Școala agricolă Trifești lângă Roman, unde viitorul scriitor a și învățat între 1901-1903. Urmează liceul la Roman și apoi la Iași, unde își ia bacalaureatul în anul 1911. Obține licența în drept în anul 1915.
Cezar Petrescu, scriitor fecund, care pe urmele lui Honoré de Balzac aspira să scrie o nouă "Comedie umană", o Cronică românească a veacului XX. Este unul din cei mai de seamă gazetari din prima jumătate a veacului.
Alături de Lucian Blaga, A. Maniu și Gib Mihăescu întemeiază revista "Gândirea" în anul 1921. Este fondator al ziarelor Cuvântul și Curentul în 1928; director al ziarului oficios România în 1938 și al revistei România literară, 1938

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Marin Preda

Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers.
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.
His editorial debut is in 1948 with the novel Întâlnir

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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.

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

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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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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.
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.

Ion

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Marin Preda

Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers.
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.
His editorial debut is in 1948 with the novel Întâlnir

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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.

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.

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Veronica D. Niculescu

Veronica D. Niculescu (n. 1968, Pitești) a publicat volumele de proză scurtă Adeb (Editura Limes, 2004, Premiul pentru Debut al USR Sibiu), Orchestra portocalie (Editura Cartea Românească, 2008) şi Roşu, roşu, catifea (Casa de Pariuri Literare, 2012, nominalizări la Premiile Radio România Cultural și la Premiul Național de Proză Ziarul de Iași; dramatizare în cadrul Festivalului Internațional de Teatru de la Sibiu). De asemenea, microromanul Simfonia animalieră (Casa de Pariuri Literare, 2014, Premiul „Cercul Literar de la Sibiu” acordat de USR Sibiu, nominalizare la Premiul Național de Proză Ziarul de Iași). A scris două volume în colaborare cu Emil Brumaru: Basmul Prinţesei Repede-Repede (Editura Polirom, 2009) și Cad castane din castani

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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]
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.

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Rui Zink

Rui Barreira Zink is a professor at New University of Lisbon, where he graduated in Portuguese Studies and obtained the PhD in Portuguese Literature. Reader of Portuguese at the University of Michigan (1989/90).

Author of several books, among trials and fiction, the novel stresses Hotel Lusitano (1987), Apocalypse Nau (2000), The Substitute (1999) and The Surfers (2001), and the books of account the reality now Color (1988) and Spider-Man (1994), "The Anibaleitor" (2006). Cooperating with the press and made literary translation.

Rui Zink received the Award of P.E.N. Portuguese Club, the novel Davida Divine (2005), has represented the country in events like the Biennial of São Paulo, the Book Fair in Tokyo or the Edimburgh Book Festival.

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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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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.

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.
Izbucnind revoluţia din 1821, a fugit în Basarabia cu tatăl

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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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Alex Moldovan

Alex Moldovan s‑a născut la Cluj, unde locuieşte şi acum. E pasionat de literatura pentru copii, de muzică şi e voluntar la o asociaţie pentru protecţia animalelor. În copilărie, a fost atât de încântat când a descoperit cărţile, încât şi‑a propus să se facă scriitor atunci când o să fie mare. A studiat Filosofia, are un master în teorii ale artei moderne, dar a lucrat și ca muncitor necalificat, vânzător de weekend sau librar înainte să devină traducător și să traducă peste șaptezeci de cărți. Are cont pe TikTok.

A debutat în 2016 cu „Olguța şi un bunic de milioane”, iar cea de-a doua lui carte se numește „Băiețelul care se putea mușca de nas”. Al doilea volum al seriei, „Olguța și Operațiunea Jaguarul”, a apărut în 2020, cel de-al treilea,

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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.

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

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Hector Malot

Hector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.
His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
He announced his retirement as an author of fiction in 1895, but in 1896 he returned with the novel L'amour Dominateur as well as the account of hi

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Ioana Pârvulescu

Ioana Pârvulescu este o eseistă, publicistă, critic literar român și conferențiar la Universitatea din București. (Wikipedia)

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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.

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.

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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.
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

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Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist.

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Ana Blandiana

Ana Blandiana, pe numele ei civil Otilia Valeria Coman, (n. 25 martie 1942, Timișoara) este o scriitoare și luptătoare pentru libertate civică în România. Înainte de revoluția din 1989, faimoasă disidentă și apărătoare a drepturilor omului, a avut curajul să-l înfrunte direct pe dictatorul Nicolae Ceaușescu prin declarații publice în interviuri acordate postului de radio Europa Liberă și unor publicații din străinătate.
Ana Blandiana s-a implicat în viața civică printr-o serie de acțiuni în cadrul Alianței Civice. În prezent conduce Memorialul de la Sighet, un institut de studiere a crimelor comunismului, cu un centru de cercetare care organizează anual conferințe, sesiuni științifice și expoziții pe tema fenomenului totalitar.

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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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Lucian Boia

Lucian Boia is a Romanian historian, known especially for his works debunking Romanian nationalism and Communism.

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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.
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

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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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Savatie Baștovoi

Savatie Baştovoi – ieromonah, poet, prozator, publicist şi editor. Studii de pictură, filozofie şi teologie. Membru al Uniunii Scriitorilor şi al Uniunii Jurnaliştilor din Republica Moldova.

Este deţinătorul Premiului pentru Poezie al Uniunii Scriitorilor din Moldova, pentru volumul Elefantul promis (1996) – pentru acelaşi volum a mai obţinut Premiul Salonului Naţional de Carte de la Iaşi şi Premiul pentru debut al Fundaţiei Soros. În 2007 a obţinut Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor din Moldova pentru Eseu pentru volumul Ortodoxia pentru postmodernişti (Cathisma, 2007).

În 2008 două volume, romanul Nebunul şi, respectiv, Cînd pietrele vorbesc (eseu) au obţinut premiul Salonului Internaţional de Carte de la Chişinău oferit de Consiliul

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Tudor Mușatescu

Tudor Muşatescu was a Romanian playwright and short story writer, best known for his humorous prose.
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).

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Valeriu Gherghel

Studii de Filosofie & Istorie la Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași (dublă specializare).

A publicat Porunca lui rabbi Akiba: Ceremonia lecturii de la sfîntul Augustin la Samuel Pepys (2006, ediția a II-a, 2019), Breviarul sceptic. Şi alte eseuri despre simplitate (2012, ed. a II-a, 2020), Roata plăcerilor. De ce n-au iubit unii înțelepți cărțile (2018). Toate la Polirom.

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Ioan Ianolide

Ioan Ianolide a fost un scriitor român, legionar (membru al Frățiilor de Cruce), deținut politic al regimului lui Ion Antonescu și apoi, al regimului comunist.
După studiile elementare, se înscrie la Facultatea de Drept din București, pe care nu o termină, căci din 1941, ca membru al Frățiilor de Cruce, odată cu grupul Gafencu, este întemnițat și timp de 23 de ani peregrinează prin diferite locuri de detenție: Aiud, Gherla, Pitești, Tîrgu Ocna etc.
Alături de Valeriu Gafencu, Ioan Ianolide a luptat pentru apărarea credinței ortodoxe, făcând parte din grupul misticilor (nume dat chiar de Securitate).
De Valeriu Gafencu îl leagă o prietenie exemplară. Împreună cu Virgil Maxim și Marin Naidim, încearcă să facă din spațiul carceral o Biserică a lu

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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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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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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.

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.

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Gellu Naum

Gelu Naum was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian Surrealist group. The artist Lyggia Naum, his wife, was the inspiration and main character in his 1985 novel Zenobia.

Born in Bucharest, he was the son of the poet Andrei Naum (who had been drafted in World War I and died during the Battle of Mărăşeşti) and his wife Maria Naum née Rosa Gluck. In 1933, he began studying philosophy at the University of Bucharest. In 1938, he left for France, where he continued his studies at the University of Paris. He took his PhD diploma with a thesis on the scholastic philosopher Pierre Abelard.

In 1936 (the year when he published his first book), Naum met Victor Br

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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George Topîrceanu

Born in Bucharest, Topîrceanu began his schooling in the city, and then moved to the hilly countryside of the Argeş county, in the Șuici commune, where he formed his taste for themes taken from nature. After completing secondary studies, he attended the University of Bucharest Law School, and then its Faculty of Letters, without ever finishing either. This was largely due to a hectic lifestyle punctuated by numerous affairs and heavy alcohol use.He began publishing short verses to increasing critical acclaim. In 1926, he was awarded the National Poetry Prize.
He died of liver cancer in Iaşi.

His three main volumes of poetry, Balade vesele şi triste ("Ballads, Merry and Sad"), Parodii originale ("Original Parodies") and Migdale amare ("Bitter

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Robert Southey

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity. Moreover, he was a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, historian and biographer. His biographies include the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. The latter has rarely been out of print since its publication in 1813 and was adapted for the screen in the 1926 British film, Nelson.

Southey was also a renowned Portuguese and Spanish scholar, translating a number of works of those two countries into E

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