Hristu Cândroveanu (5 February 1928 – 9 December 2013; rup, Hristu Cãndroveanu) was a

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n editor, literary critic,

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, prose writer and

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of Aromanian ethnicity. He published several works related to the Aromanians, led several Aromanian magazines and was involved in some Aromanian organizations.

Biography

Hristu Cândroveanu was born on 5 February 1928 in ( ro, Babuc), in

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(now in Silistra Province,

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). He graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the

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on 1952. Following this, he became a

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-language teacher for several years in localities of the modern

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and Prahova

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as well as in the city of

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. In 1973, he began his career as a writer with his volume ''Poeme''. Throughout the years, Cândroveanu would publish a multitude of works related to the

Aromanians The Aromanians ( rup, Armãnji, Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language. They traditionally live in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, northern and ...

, an ethnic group to which he belonged. During the 80s, he was a literary critic and editor at the magazine ''Tomis'', prestigious in

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. He also became

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of the newspaper ''Livres roumains'' ("Romanian Books"), created and directed the Aromanian magazines ''Deșteptarea'' ("The Awakening") and ''Dimândarea'' ("The Will"), founded in 1992 the Dimândarea Părintească Aromanian Cultural Foundation and also became president of the Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society. Cândroveanu held the stance that the Aromanians were not an ethnic group of their own, but part of the

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. Cândroveanu died on 9 December 2013.

References

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Biography

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