Veronica Porumbacu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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jewish poet, prose writer and translator
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Place of Birth: Bucharest
About Veronica Porumbacu
- Veronica Porumbacu (pen name of Veronica Schwefelberg; October 24, 1921 – March 4, 1977) was a Romanian poet, prose writer and translator. Born into a Jewish family in Bucharest, her parents were Arnold Schwefelberg and his wife Betty (née Grünbaun).
- Until age seven, she was cared for by a nanny from Porumbacu de Sus village; this was the origin of her pen name.
- She studied at Elena Doamna High School from 1932 to 1940; upon graduating, she was unable to enroll in the University of Bucharest due to anti-Jewish laws, instead attending the private College for Jewish Students in 1943-1944.
- She subsequently attended the literature faculty of Bucharest University from 1944 to 1948.
- She was a schoolteacher in 1943, an editor at the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company from 1945 to 1949, editor and then assistant editor-in-chief at Via?a Româneasca from 1949 to 1953, assistant editor-in-chief at Gazeta literara from 1953 to 1956 and section chief at the Romanian Writers' Union from 1956 to 1964.
- From 1970, she taught at the Bucharest Pioneers' Palace.Her first published work appeared in Ecoul newspaper in 1944, signed Maria Radu.
- She also wrote for Lumea (headed by George Calinescu), Contemporanul, Flacara, Via?a Româneasca, Gazeta literara, Steaua, Tribuna, Ateneu, Orizont and Luceafarul.
- Her first books were La capatul lui '38 (prose) and Visele Babei Dochia (poetry), both from 1947.
- Her poems of the 1950s were abundant and of little aesthetic value, putting into discursive and superficial journalistic style the themes and "theses" of the ruling communist regime.
- It was only with the 1961 Dimine?ile simple that her work again became more personal, giving lyric touches to daily, often domestic, happenings; this tendency is apparent in her following books, from Memoria cuvintelor (1963) to Voce (1974).
- Bilet în circuit (1965) and Drumuri ?i zile (1969) are Porumbacu's accounts of travel, both domestically and abroad.
- She wrote two insightful memoirs, Por?ile (1968) and Voce ?i val (1976), as well as poetry for children.
- Her numerous, well-done translations include works by Friedrich Schiller, Jean Racine, Louise Labé, Emily Dickinson, Rafael Alberti, Miklós Radnóti, Attila József and contemporary Nordic poets.Her husband was literary critic Mihail Petroveanu; the couple died in the 1977 Vrancea earthquake.
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