Nicolae Manolescu is a Romania

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n literary critic

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. As an editor of România Literară

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literary magazine

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, he has reached a record in reviewing books for almost 30 years. He is a Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy

Romanian Academy

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 since 1997.

During the civil unrest of the 1960s, because of critical opinions voiced against Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej and the Romanian Communist regime

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, he was expelled from the University of Bucharest

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, where he was studying philology

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After the Romanian Revolution of 1989

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, he was a founding member of the Civic Alliance

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 in November 1990, and, after July 1991, began a political career as leader of the minor Civic Alliance Party (PAC), a group that had split from the Alliance to pursue a more political activism, being its candidate for presidency

President of Romania

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 in the 1992 elections

Romanian presidential election, 1992

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; Manolescu subsequently represented the party in the Senate

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