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 ...

Cluj ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Status , subdivision_name2 = County seat , settlement_type = City , le ...

, 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 ...

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.

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