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Ioan Mihai Cochinescu
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (; born April 16, 1951) is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer. Childhood He was born and grew up in Timișoara, Romania. Study 1970-1974 he studied music (violin, piano and composition) at The National University for Music in Bucharest. He was granted the ''Doctor of Music'', (Aesthetics) from this university in 2005. His dissertation was on ''The Venetian baroque music of Antonio Vivaldi.'' He is a teacher of Aesthetics at the Fine Arts and Music High School of Ploieşti (Romania). Artistic and literary activity During the 1980s he participated in literary circles of Bucharest, which included the Junimea literary circle, led by the critic Ovidiu S. Crohmălniceanu, the Mondays literary circle headed by professor Nicolae Manolescu, the "Ion Luca Caragiale" and other groups in Ploieşti, Câmpina, Mizil, Pucioasa and Slănic. Many of his colleagues and he f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to support themselves in this way or write as an avocation. Most novelists struggle to have their debut novel published, but once published they often continue to be published, although very few become literary celebrities, thus gaining prestige or a considerable income from their work. Description Novelists come from a variety of backgrounds and social classes, and frequently this shapes the content of their works. Public reception of a novelist's work, the literary criticism commenting on it, and the novelists' incorporation of their own experiences into works and characters can lead to the author's personal life and identity being associated with a novel's fictional content. For this reason, the environment within which a novelist works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
