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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Pascal Bruckner est un romancier et essayiste français, d'origine suisse protestante, né à Paris le 15 décembre 1948. Après des études au Lycée Henri IV à Paris, à l'université de Paris I et de Paris VII, et à l'Ecole pratique des hautes études, Pascal Bruckner devient professeur invité à l'Université d'Etat de San Diego en Californie et à la New York University de 1986 à 1995. Maître de conférences à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris de 1990 à 1994, il collabore également au Monde et au Nouvel Observateur. Romancier prolifique, on lui doit Lunes de fiel - adapté à l'écran par Roman Polanski - Les Voleurs de beauté - prix Renaudot en 1997 - et plus récemment L'Amour du prochain (2005).
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Moni Stănilă
Moni Stanila s-a nascut in Tomesti, judetul Timis, in 1978. A studiat teologia ortodoxa la Timisoara si Sibiu. Din 2010 traieste la Chisinau, unde lucreaza in presa ca editorialist la cel mai citit ziar de limba romana, Timpul de dimineata, si conduce cenaclul literar Republica al Bibliotecii Nationale a Republicii Moldova.
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A publicat jurnalul de convertire Iconostas (Graphe, 2007), volumele de poezie Postoi parovoz. Confesiunile dogmatistei (Ninpress-Charmides, 2009) si Sagarmatha (Tracus Arte, 2012) si romanul Al 4-lea (Tracus Arte, 2013). Ambele volume de poezie au primit la Salonul International de Carte din Chisinau premiul Ministerului Culturii din Republica Moldova (2011, 2013). Membra a Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania, filiala Timis -
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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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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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 -
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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Mircea Cărtărescu
Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
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Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
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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 -
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).
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Mihail Sebastian
Mihail Sebastian, born Iosif Hechter, was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist.
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Marin Preda
Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers.
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He was born in the Teleorman county, at Silistea-Gumesti, in the family of Tudor Calarasu.
He finished the first 7 classes in this village, he was then educated at the Normal School in Abrud, next at Cristuru-Odorhei, and after that in Bucharest.
He graduated the capacity exam, but eventually stopped going to school because of various reasons.
He became clerk at the Institute for Statistics in Bucharest, he was then press corrector at Timpul magazine, where he also made his debut in 1942 with the short story Pârlitu.
Encouraged, he published prose and was remarked by Eugen Lovinescu at the Sburatorul literary club.
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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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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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Kevin Dutton
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Dr Kevin Dutton is a researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, and a member of the Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN) research group.
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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. -
Alina Nelega
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Alina Nelega (n. 1960) este un critic literar, dramaturg, eseist, prozator și publicist român contemporan.
Piesele ei sunt traduse în engleză, germană, franceză, maghiară, poloneză, bulgară, italiană, albaneză, catalană; publicate în antologii, reviste sau volum acestea sunt reprezentate în țară și internațional. Traduce și regizează spectacole pe texte noi, conduce workshopuri și masterclasses în țară și internațional. Participă la rezidențe de dramaturgie în Marea Britanie și Statele Unite.
Din anul 2010 este profesor universitar și conduce masteratul de scriere dramatică al Facultății de Teatru din cadrul Universității de Arte din Tg. Mureș. Din 2015 este profesor abilitat și conduce doctorate în cadrul școlii doctorale UAT.
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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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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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George Călinescu
George Călinescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe kəliˈnesku]) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies.
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He is currently considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time, alongside Titu Maiorescu and Eugen Lovinescu, and is one of the outstanding figures of Romanian literature in the 20th century. -
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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Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati was a Romanian working-class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.
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Born in Brăila, Istrati was the son of the laundress Joița Istrate and of a Greek smuggler from the village of Faraklata in Kefalonia (whom Panait never met).
His first attempts at writing date from around 1907 when he started sending pieces to the socialist periodicals in Romania, debuting with the article, Hotel Regina in România Muncitoare. Here, he later published his first short stories, Mântuitorul ("The Redeemer"), Calul lui Bălan ("Bălan's Horse"), Familia noastră ("Our Family"), 1 Mai ("May Day"). He also contributed pieces to -
Mihail Sadoveanu
Mihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the communist republic (1947–1948 and 1958). He is the most prolific novelist in Romanian literature and one of the most accomplished. All his major work, however, was written before the political changes in Romania following World War II. Although Sadoveanu remained a productive author after the war, like many other writers in communist countries, he had to adjust his aesthetic to meet the demands of the communist regime, and he wrote little of artistic value between 1945 and his death in 1961.
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Marin Preda
Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers.
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He was born in the Teleorman county, at Silistea-Gumesti, in the family of Tudor Calarasu.
He finished the first 7 classes in this village, he was then educated at the Normal School in Abrud, next at Cristuru-Odorhei, and after that in Bucharest.
He graduated the capacity exam, but eventually stopped going to school because of various reasons.
He became clerk at the Institute for Statistics in Bucharest, he was then press corrector at Timpul magazine, where he also made his debut in 1942 with the short story Pârlitu.
Encouraged, he published prose and was remarked by Eugen Lovinescu at the Sburatorul literary club.
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Camil Petrescu
Camil Petrescu was a Romanian playwright, novelist, poet and philosopher. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era in Romanian literature.
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Liviu Rebreanu
Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.
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Born in Târlişua (currently Bistriţa-Năsăud County), Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was the second of thirteen children born to Vasile Rebreanu, a schoolteacher, and Ludovica Diuganu, descendants of peasants. His father had been a classmate of George Coşbuc's and was an amateur folklorist. Liviu Rebreanu went to primary school in Maieru (where he was taught by his father), and then in Năsăud and Bistriţa, to military school at Sopron and then to the military academy in Budapest. He worked as an officer in Gyula but resigned in 1908, and in 1909 illegally crossed the Transylvanian Alps into Romania, and lived in Bucharest.
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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 -
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. -
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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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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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 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 -
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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George Călinescu
George Călinescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe kəliˈnesku]) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies.
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He is currently considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time, alongside Titu Maiorescu and Eugen Lovinescu, and is one of the outstanding figures of Romanian literature in the 20th century. -
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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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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Dan Alexe
Dan Alexe (n. 23 ianuarie 1961) este un scriitor, lingvist, cineast, jurnalist și traducător român stabilit în Belgia.
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Virgil Mazilescu
Virgil Mazilescu a fost un eseist, poet și traducător român, afiliat onirismului poetic.
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În 1966, a debutat cu versuri în suplimentul „Povestea vorbii” al revistei „Ramuri” din Craiova, pe atunci condus de Miron Radu Paraschivescu. A primit un premiu din partea revistei „Luceafărul” în anul 1968 pentru volumul de poezii Versuri. Virgil Mazilescu a preferat să fie un poet calitativ și nu unul cantitativ, fiind înainte de toate un tehnician al discursului poetic.
Creația sa, împreună cu scrisorile către prietenul său Dumitru Țepeneag, aflat în Franța, a încăput între coperțile unui volum postum de numai 166 de pagini, intitulat Poezii, volum îngrijit de Mircea Ciobanu. Această carte a apărut abia în 1996, la 12 ani de la moartea poetului. Virg -
Cristian Popescu
Deși a murit în 1995, la vârsta de 36 de ani, Cristian Popescu este considerat unul dintre cei mai importanti poeți ai anilor 90 și unul dintre cei mai proeminenți membri ai cenaclului literar Universitas condus de criticul literar și profesorul Mircea Martin.
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Radu Vancu
Radu Vancu (n. 1978, Sibiu) este lector universitar la Facultatea de Litere din Sibiu. Lucrarea sa de doctorat a devenit una dintre exegezele critice esențiale asupra operei lui Mircea Ivănescu: Mircea Ivănescu. Poezia discreției absolute (2007). A publicat volumele de poezie: Epistole pentru Camelia (2002), Biographia litteraria (2006), Monstrul fericit (2009), Sebastian în vis (2010) și Amintiri pentru tatăl meu (2010). Este, de asemenea, autorul volumului Eminescu. Trei eseuri (2011) și coautor al antologiilor Cele mai frumoase poeme din 2010 (2011) și Cele mai frumoase poeme din 2011 (2012).
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Octavian Paler
Octavian Paler was born on July 2, 1926 in a small village called Lisa in Brasov, Romania. He is a writer, journalist and editor and he comments the political and cultural events in Romania.
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He attended classes at the primary school in his birth village and after went to the Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest. He went to the Law College and Literature and Philosophy College at the same time.
Between 1974 and 1979 he was a substitute member of the PCR (Romanian Communist Party) and between 1980 and 1985 he was a MAN deputy of Vaslui.
In 1976 he was chosen President of Journalists' Council and for 13 years, since 1970 chief editor of the central newspaper "Romania Libera".
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Constantin Noica
Constantin Noica s-a născut la 12 iulie (stil vechi) 1909 în comuna Vitănești, județul Vlașca (în prezent în județul Teleorman).
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Începe gimnaziul în București; în perioada 1924-1928 urmează Liceul „Spiru Haret”, unde îl are ca profesor de matematică pe poetul Uvedenrodelor, Ion Barbu (Dan Barbilian). Obține bacalaureatul în 1928.
Ca licean, debutează în revista liceului, Vlăstarul, în 1927 cu eseuri care au fost publicate în anul 1934 în volumul „Mathesis sau bucuriile simple”.
Se înscrie la Facultatea de Filosofie și Litere din București, pe care o va absolvi în 1931 cu teza de licență Problema lucrului în sine la Kant. Timp de trei ani îl are ca profesor pe filosoful Nae Ionescu. Din 1965 se stabilește în București, unde va lucra ca cercetăt -
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). -
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.
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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 -
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