Mihu Dragomir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mihu Dragomir

Romanian poet, prose writer and translator

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1919

Place of Birth: Brăila, Braila, Romania

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1964

Profession: poet, translator, science fiction writer

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Mihu Dragomir

  • Mihu Dragomir (pen name of Mihail C.
  • Dragomirescu; April 24, 1919 – April 9, 1964) was a Romanian poet, prose writer and translator. Born in Braila, his parents were Constantin Dragomirescu and his wife Octavia-Olimpia (nĂŠe Radulescu), both teachers.
  • He attended primary school in his native city, followed by Nicolae Balcescu High School from 1929 to 1933.
  • In 1933, he studied at Bucharest's Gheorghe ?incai High School, returning to Braila for the Commercial High School from 1934 to 1936.
  • Expelled for a "nihilist" attitude, he re-enrolled in autumn 1936, and graduated at the top of his class in 1939.
  • The same year, he entered the Bucharest Commercial Academy, but interrupted in order to attend the Bacau reserve officers' school from 1940 to 1941.
  • He resumed university classes in 1942, but was mobilized in 1943 and saw action in World War II until 1945.
  • He then continued his studies, with interruptions, until graduating in 1948.His first newspaper article appeared in Revista tineretului cre?tin in 1933; other contributions followed in the crossword puzzle magazines Revista jocurilor, Rebus and Curentul jocurilor, where he used the pen names Jules Limah, Dr.
  • M.
  • C., Mihail, Mi?u Braili?eanu and M.
  • C.
  • Dragomirescu.
  • His first poems appeared in print in 1936, in the Silistra Valuri dunarene; that year, he self-published his first book of poems, Gânduri prafuite, in 200 copies.
  • He founded Flamura magazine in Braila in 1937.
  • He published the short poetry collections Ruga de ateu, adica vorbe despre orânduieli ?i cârmuitori (1938) and Înger condeier (1939), as well as the poem Edgar Allan Poe (1940).
  • Magazines that published his work include Universul literar, Prepoem, Via?a ?i suflet, Nazuin?a, Festival Adonis, Junimea dobrogeana, Luceafarul, Raza literara, Cadran, Revista Funda?iilor Regale, Pacala and Epigrama.
  • He first used the pen name Mihu Dragomir in Flamura in 1938.
  • In humorous magazines, he signed as Miguel Y Caramba.From 1945 to 1946, he was cultural officer in the Romanian Communist Party-affiliated Organization of Progressive Youth.
  • He was an editor at the Braila newspaper Înainte from 1946 to 1948, and at Via?a Româneasca from 1948 to 1954, in the early years of the communist regime.
  • From 1954 to 1956, he was editor-in-chief of Tânarul scriitor; worked as editor-in-chief at the script-writing section of the Bucharest Cinematographic Center from 1956 to 1958; and was editor-in-chief of Luceafarul from 1958 to 1960.
  • Starting in 1946 and until his death, he was a practitioner of socialist realism.
  • The poetry books he published during the 1950s were Prima ?arja (1950), Stelele pacii (1952), Razboiul (1954), Pe struna fulgerelor (1955), Oda pamântului meu (1957) and Întoarcerea armelor (1959); he also authored the 1962 prose volume Povestiri deocamdata fantastice.
  • Dragomir wrote translations of Edgar Allan Poe, Konstantin Simonov, Alexey Surkov, Alexander Yashin, H.
  • G.
  • Wells, John Steinbeck and Lope de Vega.
  • He died in Giurgiu.

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