Mircea Dinescu

Mircea Dinescu ( born November 11, 1950 in Slobozia ) is a Romanian writer, editor and civil rights.

Life

At the beginning of his literary career Dinescu was hailed as a great talent ( " Romanian Mayakovsky "). For his volumes of poetry, he received in 1971, 1976, 1981 and 1986 of the Romanian Writers' Union ever the price, 1978 beyond the Eminescu Prize of the Romanian Academy in 1989 and the International Poetry Award from the Netherlands.

Whether its socially critical attitude he soon became the enfant terrible, was martyred during Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime in disgrace. In 1985 he was banned from publication. When the French newspaper Libération in March 1989 reprinted an interview with him, he also lost his job as an editor at the magazine România literara of the Romanian Writers' Union and was put under house arrest.

As the voice of opposition, he has been strongly involved in the revolutionary aspirations against Ceauşescu. On 22 December 1989, he announced from the balcony of the presidential palace to the successful overthrow of the dictatorship. After the Romanian Revolution he was a member of the Council of the National Salvation Front, and had in 1990 held the office of President of the Romanian Writers' Association until 1996. In 1991 he was made an honorary citizen of the University of Augsburg. He is one of the most influential writers of Romania.

Works

Works in Romanian (selection):

• Proprietarul de Poduri (1976 )
• La dispoziţia dumneavoastră (1979 )
• Democratia naturii (1981 )
• Exile pe -o boabă de piper (1983 )
• Rimbaud negustorul (1986 )
• Pamflete vesele si triste, 1990-1996 (1996 )
• O Betie cu Marx ( 1996)
• Corijent la cele Sfinte (2004)
• Cele mai frumoase, 101 poezii (2006)

Works in German translation:

• Poems (1982 )
• Exile in Pfefferkorn (1989 )
• A muzzle for Grass (1990 )
• Mircea Dinescu, poet and civil rights activist: New Poems, Documents, Analysis (2nd edition 1994)
• I am the owner of the bridges ... Poems (1997)