Constantin (Costache) Negruzzi (n. 1808, satul Hermeziu, judeţul Iaşi – d. 24 august 1868) a fost un om politic şi scriitor român din perioada paşoptistă.
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 i…
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 strikin…
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 …
Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers. He was born in the Teleorman county, at Silistea-Gumesti, in the family of Tudor Calarasu. He finished the first 7 classes in t…
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.
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.
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 s…
George Bacovia (the pen name of George Vasiliu; September 17 [O.S. September 4] 1881–May 22, 1957) was a Romanian symbolist poet.[1] Bacovia was born in Bacău as the son of a merchant, Dimitrie Vasiliu…
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 h…
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, Teod…
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 consid…
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")…
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 …
George Călinescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe kəliˈnesku]) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies…
