Mihai Rădulescu (; May 15, 1936 – January 20, 2009) was a

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n novelist, poet, historian, and art critic. He was born in

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, the only child of Dumitru and Toni Rădulescu. After attending French schools in his native city, he enrolled in the School of English Studies, Department of Letters at the

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. In November 1956, while he was a second year student, he was arrested for participating in a

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, and sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment, which he spent at the

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and

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prisons and the Periprava, Salcia, and camps of the

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system. In 1963, he restarted his studies, graduating from the same School of English Studies of the University of Bucharest, where he studied with

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. He then became a high school teacher, a junior lecturer at his alma mater, and, from 1979 a lecturer in English and French at the Theological Institute in Bucharest. After the

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of 1989, he started the publishing company "Ramida". He died in Bucharest at age 73.

Books

*''Capcanele vocabularului englez'' - Andrei Bantaș and Mihai Rădulescu, Editura Stiințifică, 1967 *''Violonistica enesciană: violonistul Enescu: creația enesciană pentru vioară'', Editura Muzicală, 1971 *''Finaluri complexe în șah: arta marilor campioni'', Editura Stadion, 1972 *''Shakespeare – un psiholog modern'', Albatros, 1979 *''Educația prin muncă a elevilor: schițe pedagogice'', Editura Didactică si Pedagogică, 1981 *''Civilizația armenilor'', Editura Sport-Turism, 1983 *''Stilistica spectacolului: elemente de stilistică antropologică în teatru'', Editura Junimea, 1985 *''Mozart: șapte zile pentru nemurire'', Editura Muzicală, 1987 *''O vizită la Regele Mihai I'', Editura Semnalul, 1990 *''Pe bulevard în jos: schițe și nuvele'', Editura Literă, 1990 *''False friends'' - Andrei Bantaș and Mihai Rădulescu, Editura Teora, 1992 *''Tragedia lui Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu: convorbiri cu omul politic Corneliu Coposu'', Editura Ramida, 1992 *''Sânge pe Râul Doamnei: Până când atâta suferință?'', Editura Ramida, 1992 *''Caidul: nuvelele adolescenței în temnițele comuniste'', Editura Ramida, 1992 *''Dactilografele și revoluția'', Editura Ramida, 1993 *''Casa lacrimilor neplânse: martor al acuzării in procesul "reeducatorilor"'', Editura Ramida, 1993 *''Ion Mihalache: În infruntare cu Carol II'', Editura Ramida, 1993 *''Rugul Aprins. Duhovnicii Ortodoxiei, sub lespezi, în gherlele comuniste'', Editura Ramida, 1993 *''Împușcarea călărețului'', Editura Ramida, 1994 *''Martiriul Bisericii Ortodoxe Romane'', Editura Ramida, 1994 *''Codrul scufundat: la 50 ani de la moartea lui Liviu Rebreanu'', Editura Ramida, 1994 *''Evadarea lui Liviu Rebreanu'', Editura Ramida, 1994 *''Popa Piso din Zărnești'', Editura Ramida, 1994 *''Condamnat să învingă'', Editura Ramida, 1995 *''Antropologia stilistică: lumea lui Charles Dickens'', Editura Ramida, 1995 *''Flăcări sub cruce'', Editura Ramida, 1995 *''Testament între înger și diavol'', Editura Ramida, 1995 *''Un viitor călugăr greco-catolic din preajma „Rugului aprins''; în colaborare cu Pericle Martinescu și Justin Paven), Editura Ramida, 1996 *''Alcovul secret" din volumul de povestiri: "Decameronul din Nowhershire'', sub pseudonimul Alquain Foggrery (publicat la Editura F.F.Press, într-o primă editie, 1996; a doua aparitie la Editura Ramida) *''Haiku-urile putrezirii de viu'', Editura Ramida, 1996 *''Dubla personalitate în Renaștere: studiu monografic de antropologie stilistică'', Editura Ramida, 1996 *''Mortii nostri vii din temnite. Sonete'', Editura Ramida, 1997 *''Preoți în cătușe'', în colaborare cu Irineu Slătineanu, Editura Ramida, 1997 *''Antim Ivireanul: învatator, scriitor, personaj'', Fundatia "Antim Ivireanul", 1997 *''Rugul Aprins de la Mănăstirea Antim la Aiud'', Editura Ramida, 1998 *''Patru eseuri despre Mircea Eliade'', Editura Ramida, 1998 *''Istoria literaturii române de detenție: Vol. 1 - Memorialistica reeducarilor; Vol. 2 - Marturisirea colaborării'', Editura Ramida, 1998 *''Morala practica pentru crestinul incepător'', Editura Ramida, 1999 *''Bucuriile și mâhnirile părintelui Sisoe din Boteni'', Editura Ramida, 1999 *, 1999 *''Iubirea ca pasărea cerului și alte povestiri'', Editura Ramida, 1999 *''Genealogia romanească. Istoric si bibliografie'', Editura Istros - Muzeul Brăilei, 2000 *''Memorie și strămosi'', Editura Albatros, 2002 *''Chemarea lui Dumnezeu în temnițele comuniste. Vol. I'', Editura Agapis, 2002 *''Hrandt'', Editura Ararat, 2002 *''Intemnitarea Parintelui Nicodim'', Editura Agapis, 2003 *''Însemnări pe "Calendarul meu" de Radu Gyr'', Fundația Prof. George Manu, 2003 *''Rugul Aprins. Arestare. Condamnare. Achitare'', Editura Agapis, 2003 *''Chemarea lui Dumnezeu în temnițele comuniste. Vol. II'', Editura Agapis, 2004 *''La capătul iadului: mărturii și documente'', Editura Vremea, 2005 *''Sandu Tudor și "Floarea de foc"'', Editura Panaghia, 2008 *, 2008 *''Hiroshige'', Editura Maiko, 2008 *''Calea cărții. Povestiri din viața Părintelui Nicodim Mandita'', Editura Agapis, 2015

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radulescu, Mihai 1936 births 2009 deaths Writers from Bucharest University of Bucharest alumni Romanian art critics 20th-century Romanian historians Romanian male novelists Romanian male poets Romanian prisoners and detainees Eastern Orthodox Christians from Romania 20th-century Romanian poets 20th-century Romanian novelists 20th-century Romanian male writers Inmates of Gherla prison Inmates of Jilava Prison