Romanian poets

ROMANIAN POETS

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School -year 2018/2019

Biography written by Cristina Funes Sources : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Alecsandri PHOTO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Alecsandri#/media/File:Nestor_Heck_-_Vasile_Alecsandri.jpg

VASILE ALECCSANDRI

Vasile was born in Moldavia in1821. He was a poet, playwright, politician and diplomat.

His family was of small land owners. His parents had seven children but only 3 lived.

The family prospered in the business of salt and cereals trade.

He arrived in Paris in 1834, and studied chemistry, medicine, and law. But soon, he left everything for what he called the "passion of my life," literature.

He wrote his first literary essays in 1838 in French.

He collected Romanian folklore and published two books that made him very popular.

He wrote a volume of original poetry, "Doine și Lăcrămioare" He also contributed to " România Literară", the first literary magazine in Romanian language.

In 1840 he was appointed director of the National Theater in Iaşi.

He died in 1890 due to a cancer

Biography written by Baptiste and Celia.

Biography Research Sources : Wikipedia

Mihai Eminescu Early Life: He was born on 15 january 1850 of Botosani.

His father is Gheorghe Eminovici and his mother is Raluca ilurascu.

He goes to primary school and high school.

Family Life He married at Raluca ilurascu.

He did not have children.

Works The first poeme is glossa.

The most famous poem is doina.

He lived in bostani in the family home.

He was a secretary and copyst.

dhd Interesting Fact: He was an anctive member of literary society.

End of life: He died on 15 June 1889 of Bucarest.

He had the disease syphilis.

He is buried in the Bilu cemetery.

Biography written by Juliette

Biography Research Sources : www.jesuismort.com, www.eminescuipotesti.ro, www.autorii.com, Eminescu.over-blog.fr, ro.wikisource.org, www.wikidata.org, www.wikiwand.com, fr.wikipedia.org, www.linternaute.fr, www.wordreference.org, Google.

Mihai Eminescu Photo :

Family Life : - He wasn’t married and he didn’t have any children.

- Mihai lived his first years in Botosani andIpotești in Moldavia. At 17 years old, he moved in Bucarest.

- His principal jobs were: poet, philologist, writer, journalist and roumanian politic. He worked also as secretary, prompter, copyist, translator, listener,..

Early Life: He was born in Botosani, Principality of Moldavia, the 15th of January, 1850. He was the seventh of eleven children -His father called Gheorghe Eminovici d'Ipotești. He was from a poor family but he enriched.

Raluca Iurăscu,his mother, heir of an old aristocratic family of Moldavia was proud of her ancestors, her father was a «stolnic».

-From 1858 to 1866, he went to primary school. Then, he went at High School Imperial and Royal.

Biography written by Kloé and Emilie

Biography Research Sources : http://eminescu.over-blog.fr/article-35153010.html

Mihai Eminescu

Family Life His ex girlfriend is Veronica Micle.He settled in Ipoteşti, near the town of Botoşani. His work has influenced generations of local writers and earned him the label of the Romanian national poet.

End of life: He was born on January 15, 1850 and he died on June 15, 1889

Early Life: He attended Imperial and Royal High School, and is a colleague of Johann Menga. He has as a professor of Romanian literature Aron Pumnul, a figure of the revolutionary years of 1848. In 1867, at the age of 17, he joined Iorgu Caragiale's troupe as secretary and blower in Mihai Pascaly's troupe.

His father is Gheorghe Eminovicid'Ipoteşti, a village near Botoşani where he settles and marries Raluca Iurăscu, daughter of a stolnic.

He was born on January 15, 1850 in Botoşani Moldova.

3 Interesting Facts: On April 1, 1869, he co-founded the literary circle "Orient", whose objectives include the collection of documents related to Romanian literary history.

On February 25, his poem De-aş avea (Si je) is published in Bucharest in the literary magazine of Iosif Vulcan: Familia.

He is appointed secretary and copyist for the Bucharest National Theater. During this period, he continues to write and publish poems.

Works Hyperion is his most famous poem, Democracy is his oldest poem he was released on April 14, 2007.

C’est le poème le plus connu d’Eminescu que je livre ici, le classique des classiques des écoliers et étudiants roumains; suite à sa parution, une revue a même changé de nom pour prendre son titre. Une précision d’ailleurs pour qu’il n’y ait pas de malentendu : on trouve plus souvent cette œuvre sous la traduction d’Hypérion, le titre original étant Luceafarul.

Biography research Resources: www.wikipedia.org / www.poetryfoundation.org

Marin Sorescu

Early life

Family life In 1971, he was a resident of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

He has also been known for his painting, and he opened many art exhibits in Romania and abroad. He occupied the position of Minister of Culture within the Nicolae Văcăroiu Cabinet, without being a member of any political party, after the Romanian revolution of 1989 (from 25 November 1993 to 5 May 1995).

Soresco married Virginia Seitan In 1961.

Sorescu Born 29 February 1936 to a family of farmworkers in Bulzești, 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 University of Iaşi, where, in 1960, he graduated with a degree in modern languages.

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Facts He grew so popular that his readings were held in football stadiums Iona, the play written by Marin Sorescu and first published in 1968 is a true masterpiece.

Sorescu was awarded :

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Romanian Academy prize, 1968, 1977 The Gold Medal for Poetry "Napoli ospite", Italy, 1970 The Prize of the Romanian Academy for Drama, 1970 "Le Muse", granted by Accademie delle Muse, Florence, 1978 The International Poetry Prize "Fernado Riello", Madrid, Spain, 1983 The International Herder Prize, granted by the University of Vienna in 1991 for his entire activity Romanian Writers' Union prize (6 times, for poetry, drama, and literary criticism) He was also nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature.

End of life Sorescu died in 1996 from a heart attack at the Elias Hospital in Bucharest, at the age of 60.

Works His first book, a collection of parodies in 1964 entitled Singur printre poeĹŁi ("Alone Among Poets") The best-known collection of Censored Poems is House under surveillance.

My cat washes with her left paw, there will be another war.

For I have observed that whenever she washes with her left paw international tension grows considerably.

How can she possibly keep her eye on all the five continents?

Could it be that in her pupils that Pythia now resides who has the power to predict the whole of history without a full-stop or comma?

It's enough to make me howl when I think that I and the Heaven with its souls I have shouldered in the last resort depend on the whims of a cat.

Go and catch mice, don't unleash more world wars, damned lazybones!

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Nichita Stănescu (Romanian pronunciation: [niˈkita stəˈnesku]; born Nichita Hristea Stănescu) (31 March 1933 – 13 December 1983) was a Romanian poet and essayist.

Stănescu's father was Nicolae Hristea Stănescu (1908–1982). His mother, Tatiana Cereaciuchin, was Russian (originally from Voronezh, she had fled Russia and married in 1931). Nichita Stănescu finished high school in Ploieşti, then went on to study Romanian language and literature in Bucharest, graduating in 1957. He made his literary debut in the Tribuna literary magazine. Stănescu married Magdalena Petrescu in 1952, but the couple separated a year later.

In 1962 he married Doina Ciurea. In 1982 he married Todoriţa "Dora" Tărâță.

For much of his career, Stănescu was a contributor to and editor of Gazeta Literară, România Literară and Luceafărul. His editorial debut was the poetry book Sensul iubirii ("The Aim of Love"), which appeared under the Luceafărul selection, in 1960. He also was the recipient of numerous awards for his verse, the most important being the Herder Prize in 1975 and a nomination for the Nobel Prize in 1980.[1] The last volume of poetry published in his lifetime was Noduri şi semne ("Knots and Signs"), published in 1982. A heavy drinker, he died of cardiopulmonary arrest.

Winter Song You are so beautiful in winter!

The field stretched on its back, near the horizon, and the trees stopped running from the winter wind...

My nostrils tremble and no scent and no breeze only the distant, icy smell of the suns.

How transparent your hands are in winter!

And no one passes only the white suns revolve in quiet worship. and the thought spreads in circles ringing the trees in twos in fours.

Poetry Poetry is the weeping eye it is the weeping shoulder the weeping eye of the shoulder it is the weeping hand the weeping eye of the hand it is the weeping soul the weeping eye of the heel.

Oh, you friends, poetry is not a tear it is the weeping itself the weeping of an uninvented eye the tear of the eye of the one who must be beautiful of the one who must be happy.

Biography written by: Alexandros 4th Junior High School of Petroupoli

Biography Research Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Blandiana https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ana-Blandiana http://www.orizzonticulturali.it/it_poesia_Ana-Blandiana.html

Poet’s name: (Romania) GAME

Ana Blandiana (Otilia Valeria Coman) Life: Ana Blandiana was born on 25 March 1942, in Timişoara.

She is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She is considered one of the leading contemporary Romanian authors. She took her name after Blandiana, near Vințu de Jos, Alba County, her mother's home village.

Family: Coman's parents were Gheorghe (1915-1964), a priest who spent years in Communist prisons and died in an accident weeks after his release in a general amnesty, and Otilia (Diacu), an accountant. Her sister Geta was born in 1947. In 1960 she married the writer Romulus Rusan.

Blandiana graduated in philology from the University of Cluj (1967). She edited poetry journals and, from 1975, was librarian at the Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest. A freelance writer and poet, she was a columnist for the literary journals Contemporanul (1968–73) and România literǎ. Because of her dissident poetry, her work was banned from all Romanian publications in the mid-1980s. Blandiana participated in the successful December 1989 uprising against Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime. Elected to the newly organized Council of the National Salvation Front, she resigned after it was found to be neocommunist in philosophy.

Blandiana was awarded the Légion d’Honneur (2009), and the US State Department distinguished her with the Romanian Women of Courage Award (2014). She won the European Poet of Freedom Prize (Gdansk, 2016) for My Native Land A4 (2010) In October 2017, she was announced as The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry's twelfth recipient of their Lifetime Recognition Award.

Works Blandiana’s admired first collection, Persoana ǐntǐia plural (1964; “First-Person Plural”), deals joyfully with subjective emotion. Her poetic concerns ranged from the existential, spiritual, and sensual to sociophilosophical comments on women’s issues. Through metaphoric use of nature and the seasons, she sought a spiritual connection to the natural world’s life cycles in such collections as A treia tainǎ (1969; “The Third Sacrament”) and Somnul din somn (1977; “The Sleep Within the Sleep”).

Her poetry from the 1980s is more sombre and less optimistic, as in the collection Stea de pradǎ(1985; “Star of Prey”). The Hour of Sand: Selected Poems 1969–1989 was published in 1990.

In addition to the poetry for which she is best known, she published several novels and volumes of political and social criticism.

Clepsidră

Hourglass

Mă uit la clepsidra

I contemplate the hourglass

În care nisipul

Where a grain of sand

A rămas suspendat

Got stuck

Refuzând să mai curgă.

And refuses to fall.

E ca într-un vis:

It’s like a dream:

Nimic nu se mişcă.

Nothing moves.

Mă uit în oglindă:

I contemplate the mirror:

Nimic nu se schimbă.

Nothing changes.

Visul opririi

A dream of stopping

Din drumul spre moarte

On the road towards death

Seamănă morţii.

Is the same as being dead

from her book “My native land in A4” for which She won the European Poet of Freedom Prize (Gdansk, 2016) published in English by Bloodaxe.

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