Emanoil Bucuța, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian prose writer and poet
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Place of Birth: Bolintin-Deal, Giurgiu County, Romania
About Emanoil Bucuța
- Emanoil Bucu?a (born Emanoil Popescu; June 27, 1887 – October 7, 1946) was a Romanian prose writer and poet. Born in Bolintin-Deal, Giurgiu County, his parents were Ioni?a Popescu, a butler, and his wife Rebeca-Elena (née Bucu?a).
- Moving to Bucharest, he graduated from Saint Sava High School in 1907, followed by a degree in Germanistics from Bucharest University in 1911.
- He made his prose publishing debut in 1903, in Universul ilustrat.
- He worked on a doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1912 and 1913, but quit due to lack of funds.
- While there, he kept an intimate diary called Mozaic.
- After 1918, he became an active promoter of cultural life in interwar Romania.
- He was a director at the Labor Ministry in 1922, at the Cultural Foundation in 1925 and at the Schools Department from 1931 to 1944.
- He served as general secretary at the Religious Affairs and Arts Ministry from 1932 to 1933, and was editor-in-chief of two magazines, Graiul românesc (1927-1929) and Boabe de grâu (1930-1935).
- Reviews that published his work include Drum drept, Ideea Europeana, Gândirea, Ramuri and Via?a Româneasca.
- He took part in Balkan conferences between 1930 and 1932 (these would later result in the Balkan Pact) and was a delegate to PEN congresses from 1927 to 1933.
- He was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1941.
- As he sadly remarked, "the writer was pushed aside by the cultural figure".His first published volume was a 1920 book of poems, Florile inimii; George Calinescu observed: "he is the first intimist in the proper sense of the word, a poet who sings of his small domestic universe".
- His novels were Fuga lui ?efki (1927; Romanian Writers' Society prize, 1928), Maica Domnului de la mare (1930) and Capra neagra (1938).
- In two volumes, Crescatorul de ?oimi (1928) and Pietre de vad (I-IV, 1937-1944), he collected essays and articles about the land and people of Romania and other countries, the art of literature and painting, and culture and society.
- He left behind a massive diary in manuscript form.
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