Aurel Pantea (; born 10 March 1952) is a Romanian poet and literary critic.
Born in
Chețani,
Mureș County
Mureș County (, ro, Județul Mures, hu, Maros megye) is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, with the administrative centre in Târgu Mureș. The county was established in 1968, after the administrative ...
into a family of peasants,
Pantea attended the Faculty of Letters of the
Babeș-Bolyai University
The Babeș-Bolyai University ( ro, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai , hu, Babeș-Bolyai Tudományegyetem, commonly known as UBB) is a public research university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. UBB has a long academic tradition, started by Universitas ...
in
Cluj
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, graduating in 1976.
[ During the university years he collaborated with the magazine ''Equinox''.] After graduation, he taught at Borșa
Borșa (; Hungarian: ''Borsa'', German: ''Borscha'', yi, בורשא ''Borsha'') is a town in eastern Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania, in the valley of the river Vișeu and near the Prislop Pass. Linking Transylvania to Bukovina, Prislo ...
and Alba Iulia
Alba Iulia (; german: Karlsburg or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; hu, Gyulafehérvár; la, Apulum) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the Mureș River in the historica ...
. Since 1989 he is the director of the magazine ''Vatra'', and since 1990 he is the director of the magazine ''Discobolul''. He is a member of the Writers' Union of Romania
The Writers' Union of Romania (), founded in March 1949, is a professional association of writers in Romania. It also has a subsidiary in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. The Writers' Union of Romania was created by the communist regime by taking ...
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Body of works
; Poetry
* '' Casa cu retori'', București, Editura Albatros, 1980.
* ''Persoana de după-amiază'', Cluj, Editura Dacia, 1983.
* ''La persoana a treia'', București, Editura Cartea Românească, 1992.
* ''Negru pe negru'', Tg. Mureș, Editura Arhipelag, 1993.
* ''Aceste veneții, aceste lagune'', Bacău, Editura Axa, 1995.
* ''O victorie covârșitoare'', Pitești, Editura Paralela 45, 1996.
* ''Negru pe negru (alt poem)'', Cluj, Editura Casa Cărții de Știință, 2005.
;Literary critic
* ''Poeți ai transcendenței pline'', Cluj, Editura Casa Cărții de Știință, 2003.
* ''Simpatii critice'', Cluj, Editura Casa Cărții de Știință, 2004.
* ''Înapoi la lirism'' (o anchetă), Tg. Mureș, Editura Ardealul, 2005.
* ''Ștefan Aug. Doinaș'' (studiu monografic), Cluj, Editura Limes, 2007.
* ''Sacrul în poezia românească'' (volum colectiv), Cluj, Editura Casa Cărții de Știință, 2007.
References
Further reading
* Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu. ''Dicționarul scriitorilor români'', M-Q. Editura Albatros, 2001. .
* Manuela Anton, Tiberiu Avramescu, Șerban Axinte. ''Dicționar general al literaturii române'', Vol. 5. Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2006. .
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1952 births
Living people
People from Mureș County
Babeș-Bolyai University alumni
Romanian poets
Romanian male poets
Romanian literary critics