The Sibiu Literary Circle was a literary group

Literary society

A literary society is a group of people interested in literature. In the modern sense, this refers to a society that wants to promote one genre of literature or a specific writer. Modern literary societies typically promote research about their chosen author or genre, publish newsletters, and hold...

 created during World War II

World War II

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 in Sibiu

Sibiu

Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 154,548. Located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt...

 to promote the modernist liberal ideas of Eugen Lovinescu

Eugen Lovinescu

Eugen 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...

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The group was formed around Lucian Blaga

Lucian 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...

 and other intellectuals from Cluj

Cluj-Napoca

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, who had settled in Sibiu after the University of Cluj

Babes-Bolyai University

The Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca is an university in Romania. With almost 50,000 students, the university offers 105 specialisations, of which there are 105 in Romanian, 67 in Hungarian, 17 in German, and 5 in English...

 had moved there in 1940, in the wake of the Hungarian

Hungary

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 occupation of Northern Transylvania

Northern Transylvania

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. The most active members of the group were Ion Negoiţescu

Ion Negoitescu

Ion Negoiţescu was a Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist, one of the leading members of the Sibiu Literary Circle. A rebellious and eccentric figure, Negoiţescu began his career while still an adolescent, and made himself known as a literary ideologue of the 1940s...

, Radu Stanca

Radu Stanca

Radu Stanca was a Romanian poet, playwright, theatre director, theatre critic and theoretician. He was born in Sebeş and died in Cluj-Napoca....

, Ion Desideriu Sârbu, Cornel Regman, Ştefan Augustin Doinaş

Stefan Augustin Doinas

Ştefan Augustin Doinaş was a Romanian Neoclassical poet of the Communist era....

, Nicolae Balotă, Eugen Todoran, Eta Boeriu

Eta Boeriu

Eta Boeriu was a Romanian poet, literary critic and translator...

, Radu Enescu, and Ovidiu Cotruş. The group disbanded in 1945.