List of Romanian writers
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Old literature
- Neagoe BasarabNeagoe BasarabNeagoe Basarab was the Voivode of Wallachia between 1512 and 1521. Born into the boyar family of the Craioveşti as the son of Pârvu Craiovescu or Basarab Ţepeluş cel Tânăr, Neagoe Basarab, who replaced Vlad cel Tânăr after the latter rejected Craioveşti tutelage, was noted for his abilities and...
- DosofteiDosofteiDimitrie Barilă, better known under his monastical name Dosoftei , was a Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator....
- Miron CostinMiron CostinMiron Costin was a Moldavian political figure and chronicler. His main work, Letopiseţul Ţărâi Moldovei [de la Aron Vodă încoace] was meant to extend Grigore Ureche's narrative, covering events from 1594 to 1660...
(1633–1691) - Grigore UrecheGrigore UrecheGrigore Ureche was a Moldavian chronicler who wrote on Moldavian history in his Letopiseţul Ţării Moldovei , covering the period from 1359 to 1594....
(1590–1647) - Ion NeculceIon NeculceIon Neculce was a Moldavian chronicler. His main work, Letopiseţul Ţărâi Moldovei [de la Dabija Vodă până la a doua domnie a lui Constantin Mavrocordat] was meant to extend Ion Neculce's narrative, covering events from 1661 to 1743.-Life:Ion Neculce...
(1672–1744) - Nicolae MilescuNicolae MilescuNicolae Milescu was a Moldavian writer, traveler, geographer, and diplomat. Milescu spoke 9 languages: Romanian, Latin, Greek, Modern Greek, French, German, Turkish, Swedish and Russian...
(1636–1708) - Antim Ivireanul (1650-1617)
- Dimitrie CantemirDimitrie CantemirDimitrie Cantemir was twice Prince of Moldavia . He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer....
(1673–1723) - Gheorghe AsachiGheorghe AsachiGheorghe Asachi was a Moldavian-born Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation...
(1788–1869)
Romantic writers
- Dinicu GolescuDinicu GolescuDinicu Golescu , a member of the Golescu family of boyars, was a Wallachian Romanian man of letters, mostly noted for his travel writings and journalism....
- Anton PannAnton PannAnton Pann , was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher...
- Ion Heliade-Rădulescu
- Grigore AlexandrescuGrigore AlexandrescuGrigore Alexandrescu in Bucharest was a nineteenth century Romanian poet and translator noted for his fables with political undertones.Of a noble family, he participated in secret revolutionary societies...
- Constantin NegruzziConstantin NegruzziConstantin Negruzzi was a Romanian poet, novelist, translator, playwright and politician.Born in Trifeştii Vechi, Moldavia, he studied at home with a Greek teacher. He admitted in a later article that he learnt Romanian by himself, from a book written by Petru Maior...
(1808–1868) - Ion GhicaIon GhicaIon Ghica was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania . He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president for four times...
(1817–1897) - Nicolae FilimonNicolae FilimonNicolae Filimon was a Wallachian Romanian novelist and short-story writer, remembered as the author of the very first Realist novel in Romanian literature, Ciocoii vechi şi noi , which was centered on the self-seeking figure of Dinu Păturică...
(1891–1895) - Alexandru OdobescuAlexandru OdobescuAlexandru Ioan Odobescu was a Romanian author, archaeologist and politician.-Biography:He was born in Bucharest, the second child of General Ioan Odobescu and his wife Ecaterina. After attending Saint Sava College and, from 1850, a Paris lycée, he took the baccalauréat in 1853 and studied...
(1834–1895) - Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu (1838–1907)
- Petre IspirescuPetre IspirescuPetre Ispirescu was a Romanian printer and publicist.-Biography:Born in Bucharest, his parents wanted him to be a priest and he was entrusted to study with a monk at the Metropolitan Church, after he studied with a priest at the Doamna Bălaşa Church....
- Alexandru OdobescuAlexandru OdobescuAlexandru Ioan Odobescu was a Romanian author, archaeologist and politician.-Biography:He was born in Bucharest, the second child of General Ioan Odobescu and his wife Ecaterina. After attending Saint Sava College and, from 1850, a Paris lycée, he took the baccalauréat in 1853 and studied...
- Alecu RussoAlecu RussoAlecu Russo , was a Moldavian Romanian writer, literary critic and publicist....
- Alexandru MacedonskiAlexandru MacedonskiAlexandru Macedonski was a Wallachian-born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades...
- Barbu Delavrancea
The classics
- Vasile AlecsandriVasile AlecsandriVasile Alecsandri 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....
(1821–1890) - Ion CreangăIon CreangaIon 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...
(1839–1889) - Ioan SlaviciIoan SlaviciIoan Slavici was a Transylvanian-born Romanian writer and journalist. He made his debut in Convorbiri literare , with the comedy Fata de birău...
(1848–1925) - Mihai EminescuMihai EminescuMihai Eminescu 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 official newspaper of the Conservative Party...
(1850–1889) - Ion Luca CaragialeIon Luca CaragialeIon Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist...
(1852–1912)
Transition literature
- Duiliu ZamfirescuDuiliu ZamfirescuDuiliu Zamfirescu was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a while in 1920, he was Foreign Minister of Romania...
- Alexandru DavilaAlexandru DavilaAlexandru Davila was a Romanian dramatist, diplomat, public administrator, and memoirist.-Biography:The son of Carol Davila, a distinguished military physician of French origin, and Ana Racoviţă , he studied in his native Goleşti and at V. A...
- George CoşbucGeorge CosbucGeorge Coşbuc was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist, best remembered for his verses describing, praising and eulogizing rural life, its many travails but also its occasions for joy....
- Ion Agârbiceanu (1882–1963)
- Gala GalactionGala GalactionGala Galaction was a Romanian Orthodox clergyman and theologian, writer, journalist, left-wing activist, as well as a political figure of the People's Republic of Romania...
(1879–1961) - Constantin StereConstantin StereConstantin G. Stere or Constantin Sterea was a Romanian writer, jurist, politician, ideologue of the Poporanist trend, and, in March 1906, co-founder Constantin G. Stere or Constantin Sterea (Romanian; , Konstantin Yegorovich Stere or Константин Георгиевич Стере, Konstantin Georgiyevich Stere;...
(1865–1936) - Nicolae IorgaNicolae IorgaNicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. Co-founder of the Democratic Nationalist Party , he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies' Assembly and Senate, cabinet minister and briefly as Prime Minister...
- Emil Gârleanu
Female authors
- Hortensia Papadat-BengescuHortensia Papadat-Bengescu-Life:She was born in Iveşti, Galaţi County, the daughter of General Dimitrie Bengescu and of Zoe . She attended high-school in Bucharest and, aged 20, she married the magistrate Nicolae Papadat but her literary career was delayed because her husband was transferred from town to town and because...
(1876–1955) - Martha BibescuMarthe BibescoMarthe, Princess Bibesco was a Romanian-French writer of the Belle Époque...
(1886–1973) - Elena Farago (1878–1954)
- Ioana Postelnicu (b. 1910)
- Elena VăcărescuElena VacarescuElena Văcărescu or Hélène Vacaresco was a Romanian-French aristocrat writer, twice a laureate of the Académie française.-Life:...
(1864–1947)
Analytical prose
- Anton HolbanAnton HolbanAnton Holban was a Romanian novelist. He was the nephew of Eugen Lovinescu.The son of Gheorghe Holban and Antoaneta Lovinescu, he was a writer, French teacher and theoretician of the novel...
(1902–1937) - Gib MihăescuGib MihaescuGib I. Mihăescu was a Romanian novelist and dramatist.Born in Drăgăşani, Mihăescu wrote short stories such as Grandiflora, and novels. His work depicts obsessive, often erotic, feelings. His works include Rusoaica , Femeia de ciocolată , and his masterpiece, Donna Alba...
(1894–1935) - Camil PetrescuCamil PetrescuCamil Petrescu was a Romanian playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era.- Life :...
(1894–1957) - Mihail SebastianMihail Sebastian-Life:Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila. After finishing his secondary studies, Sebastian went on to study law in Bucharest, but was soon attracted to the literary life and the exciting ideas of the new generation of Romanian intellectuals, as epitomized by the literary group...
(1907–1945) - Ion Vinea
Realist prose
- Ion Agârbiceanu
- Adrian Maniu
- Ion Marin SadoveanuIon Marin SadoveanuIon Marin Sadoveanu was a Romanian playwright.- Biography :...
- Eugeniu BotezEugeniu BotezEugeniu Botez was a Romanian writer, best known for his novel Europolis . Botez wrote under the pseudonym Jean Bart....
(1877–1933) - George CălinescuGeorge CalinescuGeorge Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies...
(1899–1965) - Eugen LovinescuEugen LovinescuEugen Lovinescu was a Romanian modernist literary historian, literary critic, academic, and novelist, who in 1919 established the Sburătorul literary club. He was the father of Monica Lovinescu, and the uncle of Horia Lovinescu, Vasile Lovinescu, and Anton Holban...
(1881–1943) - Cezar PetrescuCezar PetrescuCezar Petrescu was a Romanian journalist, novelist and children's writer.He was inspired by the works of Honoré de Balzac, attempting to write a Romanian novel cycle that would mirror Balzac's La Comédie humaine...
(1892–1961) - Liviu RebreanuLiviu RebreanuLiviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.- Life :Born in Târlișua , 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...
(1885–1944) - Mihail SadoveanuMihail SadoveanuMihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting republican head of state under the communist regime . One of the most prolific Romanian-language writers, he is remembered mostly for his historical and adventure novels, as...
(1889–1961) - Vasile VoiculescuVasile VoiculescuVasile Voiculescu was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.-Early life and education:Voiculescu was born in Pârscov, Buzău County, Romania, to a family of wealthy peasants. He attended primary school in Pleşcoi, a village near his home, for a year, after which he was sent...
- Mihail Sorbul
- Ion Al. Brătescu-Voineşti
- Alexandru Kiriţescu
- George CălinescuGeorge CalinescuGeorge Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies...
- Alexandru Philippide
- Zaharia StancuZaharia StancuZaharia Stancu was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher.Stancu was born in 1902 in Salcia, a village in Teleorman County, Romania. After leaving school at the age of thirteen he worked at various jobs. In 1921, with the help of Gala Galaction, he became a journalist...
- George Mihail Zamfirescu
Fantastic prose
- Mircea EliadeMircea EliadeMircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day...
(1907–1986) - Max BlecherMax BlecherMax Blecher was a writer from Romania.His father was a well-to-do Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. He attended primary and secondary school in Roman, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureat, Blecher left for Paris to study medicine...
(1909–1938) - Vasile VoiculescuVasile VoiculescuVasile Voiculescu was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.-Early life and education:Voiculescu was born in Pârscov, Buzău County, Romania, to a family of wealthy peasants. He attended primary school in Pleşcoi, a village near his home, for a year, after which he was sent...
(1884–1963) - Gellu NaumGellu NaumGellu Naum was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian Surrealist group...
(1915–2001)
Others
- UrmuzUrmuzUrmuz was a Romanian writer, lawyer and civil servant, who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene. His scattered work, consisting of absurdist short prose and poetry, opened a new genre in Romanian letters and humor, and captured the imagination of modernists for several generations...
(1883–1923) - experimental novels - Benjamin Fundoianu
- Ion GrămadăIon GramadaIon Grămadă was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, historian and journalist. A native of Bukovina, he joined the Romanian Army and died in battle during World War I.-Biography:...
(1886–1917) - Panait IstratiPanait IstratiPanait Istrati was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.-Early life:...
(1884–1935) - exotic prose - Ionel TeodoreanuIonel TeodoreanuIonel Teodoreanu was a Romanian novelist and lawyer. He is mostly remembered for his books on the themes of childhood and adolescence.-Biography:...
(1897–1954) - youth novels - Victor EftimiuVictor EftimiuVictor Eftimiu was an Albanian-Romanian poet, playwright, and a contributor to Sburătorul, a Romanian literary magazine. His works have been performed in the State Jewish Theater of Romania....
- Tudor MuşatescuTudor MusatescuTudor Muşatescu was a Romanian playwright and short story writer, best known for his humorous prose.-Biography: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...
- George CiprianGeorge CiprianGeorge Ciprian was a Romanian actor and playwright. His writings make him a precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd.-Biography:...
- Geo BogzaGeo BogzaGeo Bogza was a Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist, known for his left-wing and communist political convictions. As a young man in the interwar period, he was known as a rebel and was one of the most influential Romanian Surrealists...
- Eugene IonescoEugène IonescoEugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
- Emil CioranEmil Cioran-Early life:Emil M. Cioran was born in Răşinari, Sibiu County, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. His father, Emilian Cioran, was a Romanian Orthodox priest, while his mother, Elvira Cioran , was originally from Veneţia de Jos, a commune near Făgăraş.After studying humanities at the...
Mainstream prose
- Radu TudoranRadu Tudoran- Biography :He was born in Blejoi, judeţul Prahova on March 8th, 1910 as Nicolae Bogza, the younger brother of Geo Bogza, and son of Alexandru Bogza....
- Eugen JebeleanuEugen JebeleanuEugen Jebeleanu , Romanian poet, was born in Câmpina, where he attended elementary school. After graduating from high school in Braşov at age 11 in 1922, he published his first poems five years later in the literary review Viaţa literară...
- Emil BottaEmil BottaEmil Botta was a Romanian actor and writer.Botta's acting career ended as a result of his heavy drinking...
- Aurel Baranga
- Horia Vintilă
- Constantin Virgil GheorghiuConstantin Virgil GheorghiuConstantin Virgil Gheorghiu was a Romanian writer, best known for his 1949 novel, The 25th Hour.-Life:...
- Gellu NaumGellu NaumGellu Naum was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian Surrealist group...
- Horia Lovinescu
- Ion D. Sârbu
- Marin PredaMarin PredaMarin Preda was a Romanian novelist, one of the best-known post-WWII Romanian writers.Preda was born in Teleorman county, in a village called Siliştea-Gumeşti, into a family of peasants. He first studied at school in his home village, then schools in Abrud and Cristur-Odorhei...
- Ştefan Augustin DoinaşStefan Augustin DoinasŞtefan Augustin Doinaş was a Romanian Neoclassical poet of the Communist era....
- Petru Dumitriu
- Constantin ChiriţǎConstantin ChiritaConstantin Chiriţǎ was a Romanian writer.His work includes mainly writings for the young public, and still is very popular today among adolescents in Romania....
- A. E. Baconsky (1925–1977)
- Eugen BarbuEugen BarbuEugen Barbu was a Romanian modern novelist, short story writer, journalist, and correspondent member of the Romanian Academy. The latter position was vehemently criticized by those who contended that he plagiarized in his novel Incognito and for the anti-Semitic campaigns he initiated in the...
(1924–1993) - Nicolae BrebanNicolae BrebanNicolae Breban is a Romanian novelist and essayist.-Biography:He is the son of Vasile Breban, a Greek Catholic priest in the village of Recea, Maramureş County. His mother, Olga Constanţa Esthera Breban, born Böhmler, descended from a family of German merchants who emigrated from Alsace Lorraine...
(b. 1934) - Alexandru IvasiucAlexandru IvasiucAlexandru Ivasiuc was a Romanian novelist. He died in the 1977 Vrancea earthquake.-Life:He was born in Sighet, the son of a science professor. After the Second Vienna Award of 30 August 1940, the family was forced to flee to Bucharest, only returning to Sighet in 1951...
(1933–1977) - Fănuş Neagu (b. 1932)
- Dumitru Radu PopescuDumitru Radu PopescuDumitru Radu Popescu is a Romanian novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist, short story writer, and formerly communist politician. A former member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party , he is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and was, between 1980 and 1990, Chairman of...
(b. 1935) - Marin PredaMarin PredaMarin Preda was a Romanian novelist, one of the best-known post-WWII Romanian writers.Preda was born in Teleorman county, in a village called Siliştea-Gumeşti, into a family of peasants. He first studied at school in his home village, then schools in Abrud and Cristur-Odorhei...
(1922–1980) - Dinu Săraru (b. 1932)
- Zaharia StancuZaharia StancuZaharia Stancu was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher.Stancu was born in 1902 in Salcia, a village in Teleorman County, Romania. After leaving school at the age of thirteen he worked at various jobs. In 1921, with the help of Gala Galaction, he became a journalist...
(1902–1974) - Constantin Ţoiu (b. 1923)
- Ioan AlexandruIoan AlexandruIoan Alexandru was a Romanian poet, essayist and politician. After the Romanian revolution in 1989, Ioan Alexandru became a founding member and vice president of the PNŢCD...
- Ştefan Bǎnulescu
- Teodor Mazilu
- Titus Popovici
- Dumitru SolomonDumitru SolomonDumitru Solomon was a Romanian author of essays, plays, and chronicles.He was born in Galați in 1932 and died on 9 February 2003. He attended the theoretical lyceum in Barlad. In 1955, he took his degree in philology in Bucharest. Between 1955-1962, he was the editor of Gazeta literara, then...
- Dumitru ŢepeneagDumitru TepeneagDumitru Ţepeneag is a contemporary Romanian novelist, essayist, short story writer and translator, who currently resides in France...
(b. 1937)
Prose
- Geo BogzaGeo BogzaGeo Bogza was a Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist, known for his left-wing and communist political convictions. As a young man in the interwar period, he was known as a rebel and was one of the most influential Romanian Surrealists...
(1908–1993) - Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu (1939–2002)
- Constantin ChiriţăConstantin ChiritaConstantin Chiriţǎ was a Romanian writer.His work includes mainly writings for the young public, and still is very popular today among adolescents in Romania....
(1925–1991) - Brenda Stress (b. 1983)
- Radu TudoranRadu Tudoran- Biography :He was born in Blejoi, judeţul Prahova on March 8th, 1910 as Nicolae Bogza, the younger brother of Geo Bogza, and son of Alexandru Bogza....
(1917–1992) - Haralamb ZincăHaralamb ZincaHary Isac Zilberman a.k.a. Haralamb Zincă was a Romanian writer.-Books:* Amintire * Cazul R-16* Ultima toamnă * Popasuri......
(b. 1923) - Doru DavidoviciDoru DavidoviciDoru Davidovici , was an aviator and writer. Born in Romania in a Jewish family, Doru Davidovici became one of the most loved Romanian fiction writers in the 1980s...
(1945–1989)
Poetry
- George BacoviaGeorge BacoviaGeorge Bacovia was a Romanian symbolist poet. While he initially belonged to the local Symbolist movement, his poetry came to be seen as a precursor of Romanian Modernism and eventually established him in critical esteem alongside Tudor Arghezi, Lucian Blaga and Ion Barbu as one of the most...
- Gheorghe Bajenaru
- Ion BarbuIon BarbuIon Barbu was a distinguished Romanian mathematician and poet.He was born in Câmpulung-Muscel, Argeş County, the son of Constantin Barbilian and Smaranda, born Şoiculescu. He attended Ion Brătianu High School in Piteşti and Gheorghe Lazăr High School in Bucharest...
- Mihai BeniucMihai BeniucMihai Beniuc was a Romanian proletcultist poet, dramatist and novelist. He graduated from the University of Cluj in 1931 majoring in psychology, philosophy and sociology. This was reflected in his writing, particularly the novels...
- Lucian BlagaLucian Blaga-Biography:Lucian Blaga was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the interbellum period. He was a philosopher and writer higly acclaimed for his originality, a university professor and a diplomat. He was born on May 9, 1895 in Lancrăm, near Alba Iulia, Romania, his father being an...
- Dan Botta
- Leonid DimovLeonid DimovLeonid Dimov was a Romanian postmodernist poet and translator....
- Carmen FiranCarmen FiranCarmen Firan is a Romanian poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, and playwright, resident in New York.She has published fifteen books of poetry, novels, essays and short stories...
- Octavian GogaOctavian GogaOctavian Goga was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.-Life:Born in Răşinari, nearby Sibiu, he was an active member in the Romanian nationalistic movement in Transylvania and of its leading group, the Romanian National Party in Austria-Hungary. Before World War I,...
- Nicolae LabişNicolae LabisNicolae Labiș was a Romanian poet.-Early life:His father, Eugen, was the son of a forest brigade soldier and himself fought in World War II; he became a schoolteacher in 1931. His mother Ana-Profira, the daughter of a peasant killed in the Battle of Mărășești, was also a schoolteacher...
- Ion MinulescuIon MinulescuIon Minulescu was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, literary critic, and playwright. Often publishing his works under the pseudonyms I. M. Nirvan and Koh-i-Noor , he journeyed to Paris, where he was heavily influenced by the growing Symbolist movement and...
- Ion PillatIon PillatIon Pillat grew up in Bucharest. He was a poet, best known for his volume Pe Argeş în sus and Poeme într-un vers...
- Marin SorescuMarin Sorescu- Biography :Born to a family of farmworkers in Bulzeşti, Dolj County, Sorescu graduated from the primary school in his home village. After that he went to the Buzesti Brothers High School in Craiova, after which he was transferred to the Predeal Military School. His final education was at the...
- Nichita StănescuNichita StanescuNichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist. He is the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian language poet, loved by the public and generally held in esteem by literary critics.-Biography:...
- George TopîrceanuGeorge TopîrceanuGeorge Topîrceanu was a Romanian poet, short story writer, and humourist.-Biography:Born in Bucharest, Topîrceanu began his schooling in the city, and then moved to the hilly countryside of the Argeş county, in the Şuici commune, where he formed his taste for themes taken from nature...
- Dorin TudoranDorin TudoranDorin Tudoran is a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and dissident. A resident of the United States since 1985, he has authored more than fifteen books of poetry, essays, and interviews.-Early life:...
Romanian diaspora
- Cristian Petru Bălan (b. 1936)
- Matei CălinescuMatei CalinescuMatei Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana....
(b. 1934) - Andrei CodrescuAndrei CodrescuAndrei Codrescu is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He was Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009....
(b. 1946) - Dan DănilăDan DanilaDan Dănilă is a Romanian poet, translator and painter living in Leonberg, Germany, since 1990. He was born in 1954 in the village of Şura Mică near Sibiu, where he graduated the arts high school of Sibiu...
(b. 1954) - Virgil GheorghiuVirgil GheorghiuVirgil Gheorghiu may refer to:*Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, novelist*Virgil Gheorghiu , poet and pianist who was immortalised in the work of Geo Bogza...
(1916–1992) - Paul GomaPaul GomaPaul Goma is a Romanian writer, also known for his activities as a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime before 1989. Forced into exile by the communist authorities, he became a political refugee and currently resides in France as a stateless person...
(b. 1935) - Leonard OpreaLeonard OpreaLeonard Oprea is a contemporary Romanian and American writer.He was born in Prejmer, a village in Braşov County in the south-eastern part of Transylvania, central Romania. He studied at the University of Braşov, and in 1990 he specialized in mass-media communication at California State...
(b. 1953) - Dumitru ŢepeneagDumitru TepeneagDumitru Ţepeneag is a contemporary Romanian novelist, essayist, short story writer and translator, who currently resides in France...
(b. 1937)
Contemporary writers
- Gabriela AdameşteanuGabriela AdamesteanuGabriela Adameșteanu is a Romanian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator. The author of the celebrated novels The Equal Way of Every Day and Wasted Morning , she is also known as an activist in support of civil society and member of the Group for Social Dialogue , as...
(b. 1942) - Duşan Baiski (b. 1955)
- Carmen-Francesca BanciuCarmen-Francesca BanciuCarmen-Francesca Banciu is an award-winning Romanian novelist and lecturer.-Biography:Born in Lipova, Arad County, she was the daughter of a high-ranking Romanian Communist Party and government official...
(b. 1955) - T. O. BobeT. O. BobeT.O. Bobe is a Romanian poet and screenwriter for film and television.He graduated in 1995 after studying literature at the University of Bucharest....
(b. 1969) - Rodica BretinRodica BretinRodica Bretin is a Romanian writer specialized in history and fantastic literature.Rodica Bretin was born in Brasov and since 1982 is living in Bucharest. A renowned writer in Romania and Eastern Europe, Rodica Bretin has been a member of the Romanian Writers Union since 1991 and Fantasia Art...
(b.1958) - Augustin BuzuraAugustin BuzuraAugustin Buzura is a Romanian novelist and short story writer, also known as a journalist, essayist and literary critic. A member of the Romanian Academy, he has been the president of the Romanian Cultural Foundation since 1990 and president of the Romanian Cultural Institute between 2003 and...
(b. 1938) - Mircea CărtărescuMircea CartarescuMircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.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, then he worked at the Writers'...
(b. 1956) - Dan SociuDan SociuDan Sociu is a writer born May 20, 1978, in Botoşani, Romania. He belongs to the younger generation of poets, the so-called poets of 2000, who are often called representatives of "Miserabilism" by Romanian literary critics...
(b. 1978) - Mircea Ciobanu (1940–1997)
- Ioan Mihai CochinescuIoan Mihai CochinescuIoan Mihai Cochinescu is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer.-Study:...
(b. 1951) - Virgil Duda (b. 1939)
- Ion HobanaIon HobanaIon Hobana was a Romanian science fiction writer, literary critic and ufologist...
(b.1931) - Mircea NedelciuMircea NedelciuMircea Nedelciu was a Romanian short-story writer, novelist, essayist and literary critic, one of the leading exponents of the Optzecişti generation in Romanian letters...
(1950–1999) - Alexandru PaleologuAlexandru PaleologuAlexandru Paleologu was a Romanian essayist, literary critic, diplomat and politician. He is the father of historian Theodor Paleologu.-Biography:...
(1919–2005) - Octavian PalerOctavian PalerOctavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.-Biography:Octavian Paler was born in Lisa, Braşov Country.He was educated at Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest...
(1927–2007) - Dora PavelDora PavelDora Pavel is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.-Biography:Born as Dora Voicu to Viorica Pop and Eugen Voicu, both teachers, Dora Pavel graduated from the Decebal College in Deva , and the Faculty of Letters of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj .She graduated Decebal...
(b. 1946) - Camelian Propinatiu (b. 1951)
- Doina RuştiDoina RustiDoina Ruşti is a contemporary Romanian novelist. All her works were published after the Romanian Revolution of 1989....
- Răzvan Rădulescu (b. 1967)
- Leonard OpreaLeonard OpreaLeonard Oprea is a contemporary Romanian and American writer.He was born in Prejmer, a village in Braşov County in the south-eastern part of Transylvania, central Romania. He studied at the University of Braşov, and in 1990 he specialized in mass-media communication at California State...
(b. 1953) - Gelu VlaşinGelu VlaşinGelu Vlașin is a Romanian poet and essayist.Born in Telciu, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania on 30th of August 1966. He married to Cristina Maria Vlasin and has a son Darius Andrei Vlasin...
(b. 1966)
20th century
- Constantin Rădulescu-MotruConstantin Radulescu-MotruConstantin Rădulescu-Motru was a Romanian philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, logician, academic, dramatist, as well as centre-left nationalist politician with a noted anti-fascist discourse...
(1868–1957) - Lucian BlagaLucian Blaga-Biography:Lucian Blaga was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the interbellum period. He was a philosopher and writer higly acclaimed for his originality, a university professor and a diplomat. He was born on May 9, 1895 in Lancrăm, near Alba Iulia, Romania, his father being an...
(1895–1961) - Emil CioranEmil Cioran-Early life:Emil M. Cioran was born in Răşinari, Sibiu County, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. His father, Emilian Cioran, was a Romanian Orthodox priest, while his mother, Elvira Cioran , was originally from Veneţia de Jos, a commune near Făgăraş.After studying humanities at the...
(1911–1995) - Ioan Petru Culianu (1950–1991)
- Mircea EliadeMircea EliadeMircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day...
(1907–1986) - Nae IonescuNae IonescuNae Ionescu was a Romanian philosopher, logician, mathematician, professor, and journalist. Near the end of his career, he became known for his antisemitism and devotion to far right politics, in the years leading up to World War II.-Life:...
(1890–1940) - Adrian Marino (1921–2005)
- Constantin NoicaConstantin NoicaConstantin Noica was a Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet. His preoccupations were throughout all philosophy, from epistemology, philosophy of culture, axiology and philosophic anthropology to ontology and logics, from the history of philosophy to systematic philosophy, from ancient to...
(1909–1987) - Nicolae SteinhardtNicolae SteinhardtNicolae Steinhardt was a Romanian writer, Orthodox hermit and father confessor.-Early life:...
(1912–1989) - Petre ŢuţeaPetre Tutea- Early years: from Marxism to the Legionary Movement :Petre Ţuţea was born in the village of Boteni, Muscel region . His father, Petre Bădescu, was a Romanian Orthodox priest and his mother, Ana Ţuţea, was of peasant stock. After the First World War, Ţuţea left his village to finish high school in...
(1902–1991) - Mircea VulcănescuMircea VulcanescuMircea Vulcănescu was a prominent Romanian philosopher, economist, ethics teacher and sociologist.-Biography:He studied philosophy and law at the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1925...
(1904–1952)
Contemporary
- Sorin AntohiSorin Antohi-Biography:Antohi was born in Târgu Ocna. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Iaşi and a DEA from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He taught history at the University of Michigan, at the University of Bucharest and at the Central-European...
(b. 1957) - Gabriel LiiceanuGabriel LiiceanuGabriel Liiceanu is a Romanian philosopher.He graduated from University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy in 1965, and from Faculty of Classical Languages in 1973. He earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Bucharest in 1976....
(b. 1942) - Andrei PleşuAndrei PlesuAndrei Gabriel Pleşu is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic, and politician.- Biography :Born in Bucharest, the son of Radu Pleşu, a surgeon and Zoe Pleşu , he spent much of his early youth in the country side...
(b. 1948)
Literary criticism
- Titu MaiorescuTitu MaiorescuTitu Liviu Maiorescu was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century....
(1840–1917) - Eugen LovinescuEugen LovinescuEugen Lovinescu was a Romanian modernist literary historian, literary critic, academic, and novelist, who in 1919 established the Sburătorul literary club. He was the father of Monica Lovinescu, and the uncle of Horia Lovinescu, Vasile Lovinescu, and Anton Holban...
(1881–1946) - George CălinescuGeorge CalinescuGeorge Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies...
(1889–1965) - Tudor VianuTudor VianuTudor Vianu was a Romanian literary critic, art critic, poet, philosopher, academic, and translator. Known for his left-wing and anti-fascist convictions, he had a major role on the reception and development of Modernism in Romanian literature and art...
(1897–1964) - Şerban CioculescuŞerban CioculescuŞerban Cioculescu was a Romanian literary critic, literary historian and columnist, who held teaching positions in Romanian literature at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, as well as membership of the Romanian Academy and chairmanship of its Library...
(1902–1988) - Eugen Simion (b. 1933)
- Nicolae ManolescuNicolae ManolescuNicolae Manolescu is a Romanian literary critic. As an editor of România Literară literary magazine, he has reached a record in reviewing books for almost 30 years...
(b. 1939) - Virgil NemoianuVirgil NemoianuVirgil Nemoianu is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in “comparative literature” but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments...
(b. 1940)
Drama
- Ion Luca CaragialeIon Luca CaragialeIon Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist...
(1852–1912) - Eugen Ionescu (1909–1994)
- Mihail SebastianMihail Sebastian-Life:Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila. After finishing his secondary studies, Sebastian went on to study law in Bucharest, but was soon attracted to the literary life and the exciting ideas of the new generation of Romanian intellectuals, as epitomized by the literary group...
(1907–1945) - Tudor MuşatescuTudor MusatescuTudor Muşatescu was a Romanian playwright and short story writer, best known for his humorous prose.-Biography: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...
(1930–1980) - Marin SorescuMarin Sorescu- Biography :Born to a family of farmworkers in Bulzeşti, Dolj County, Sorescu graduated from the primary school in his home village. After that he went to the Buzesti Brothers High School in Craiova, after which he was transferred to the Predeal Military School. His final education was at the...
(1936–1997)
See also
- Literature of RomaniaLiterature of RomaniaRomanian literature is literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language.Eugène Ionesco is one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd....
- List of Romanian language poets
- List of Romanian novelists