George Dorul Dumitrescu (born Gheorghe Dumitrescu; February 14, 1901

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"George Doru-Dumitrescu la Chișinău"
in ''Revista Limba Română'', Nr. 9–12/2013 or 1904–1985) was a

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n prose writer and columnist. Born in

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, Prahova County, he attended high school in

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from 1916 to 1925, and studied at the

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's literature faculty, from which he obtained a degree in 1931. In 1933, he became a substitute teacher of Romanian at the military high school in Chișinău. In 1937, he began teaching at a trade school in Bucharest. He was later a civil servant within the "work and entertainment" section of the Labor Ministry. Dumitrescu's first published work was prose that appeared in ''Universul literar'' in 1928. He co-edited ''Pagini basarabene'' and ''Veac nou'' magazines. His work appeared in ''Cele trei Crișuri'', ''Universul literar'', ''Neamul românesc literar'', ''Brazde adânci'', ''România nouă literară'', ''Telegraful'', ''Adevărul literar și artistic'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 1933, he published ''La fetița dulce'', a book of tales, and he was awarded the

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prize the same year. The monograph ''Viața și opera lui Leon Donici'' came out in 1936.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 819. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. He died in Bucharest and was buried at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dumitrescu, George Doru 1900s births 1985 deaths People from Prahova County University of Bucharest alumni Romanian literary historians Romanian male short story writers Romanian short story writers Romanian columnists Romanian schoolteachers Romanian civil servants Romanian magazine editors Burials at Bellu Cemetery