The ''Vatra''
literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...
was founded in 1885 by
Ion Luca Caragiale
Ion Luca Caragiale (; commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale; According to his birth certificate, published and discussed by Constantin Popescu-Cadem in ''Manuscriptum'', Vol. VIII, Nr. 2, 1977, pp. 179-184 – 9 June 1912) was a Romanian playw ...
,
George Coşbuc and
Ioan Slavici
Ioan Slavici (; 18 January 1848 – 17 August 1925) was a Romanian writer and journalist from Hungary, later from Romania.
He made his debut in ''Convorbiri literare'' ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy ''Fata de birău'' ("The M ...
and was published in
Romanian
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*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
in the city of
Târgu Mureş Târgu (Romanian for "the market") starts off the names of several places in Romania:
*Târgu Bujor
*Târgu Cărbunești
*Târgu Frumos
* Târgu Gânguleşti
*Târgu Jiu
*Târgu Lăpuș
* Târgu Logreşti
*Târgu Mureș
*Târgu Neamț
*Târgu Ocna
...
,
Transylvania
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,
Austria-Hungary
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(now in
Romania
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).
A new series of the magazine was published starting May 1971 under the direction of poet and playwright
Romulus Guga
Romulus () was the legendary founder and first king of Rome. Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and social institutions to Romulus and his contemporaries. Although many of these ...
.
''Vatra'' means "the
hearth
A hearth () is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a lo ...
" in Romanian.
References
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Revista Vatra
Defunct literary magazines published in Europe
Defunct magazines published in Romania
Magazines established in 1885
Magazines with year of disestablishment missing
Mass media in Târgu Mureș
Romanian-language magazines
Literary magazines published in Romania
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