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Mircea Dinescu
Poet, editor, politician and dissident
Born: November 11, 1950, Slobozia. Son of Stefan Dinescu, metallurgist worker and Aurelia
Badea, worker
Education
Career
1972-1976 - doorman, Bucharest Writers Association 1976-1982 - editor, "Luceafarul" revue 1982-1989 - editor, Romānia literara" revue 1989 - dismissed from "Romania literara", as a
result of an antidicatorial interview granted to the French newspaper
"Liberation" and arrested at his domicile Liberated at the Revolution of December 1989, in Romania, he
is among the first to enter the Romanian Television Building announcing
"Tyrant is gone" 1991 - President of the Romanian Writers Union After Revolution founded the weekly "Academia Catavencu",
that he run till 2000 when he quitted to found "Plai cu boi"
magazine (october 2000) 2000 - elected member of the National Council for the Study
of Former Security Archives
Published Works
Literary debut with the poem "Destin de Familie"
(A Family's Fate), published in "Luceafarul" revue Editorial debut with the volume "Invocatie nimanui"
(Invocation to nobody), Bucharest, 1971 Elegii de cand eram mai tānar (Elegies since I was
younger), Bucharest, 1973 Proprietarul de poduri (Owner of bridges), Bucharest, 1976
(second edition 1978) La dispozitia dumneavoastra (At your disposal), Bucharest,
1979 Teroarea bunului simt (Dread of common sense), Bucharest,
1980 Democratia naturii (Nature's Democracy), Bucharest, 1981 Exil pe-o boaba de piper (Exile on a peppercorn),
Bucharest, 1983 Rimbaud negustorul (The Merchant Rimbaud), Bucharest, 1985 Moartea citeste ziarul (Death's reading the newspaper). The
volume was rejected by the censorship in 1988 but published in Amsterdam, in
1989, in Romanian, thanks to Sorin Alexandrescu O
betie cu Marx (A drinking bout with Marx), 1989
Prizes, Titles and Awards
Prizes of Romanian Writers Union, 1971, 1976, 1981 Honorary Member of the University of Augsburg, Germany
(1991) Herder Prize, 1999
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