Mircea Ivănescu (; March 26, 1931 – July 21, 2011) was a
Romanian
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poet, writer and translator, and a forerunner of Romanian
postmodernism
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, which was characteristic of the 1980s. His translations from global literature into Romanian include
James Joyce
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,
Franz Kafka
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, and
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Background
Prolific poet, debuting with ''Lines'' in 1968, Ivănescu has published almost every two years a new volume during four decades. His lyrics, often depicting a day-to-day I disguised as "mopete" (an anagram of "poet" and "poem" it was thought, but the poet himself denied it in an interview
interview
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Mihai Eminescu (; born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romanians, Romanian Romanticism, Romantic poet, novelist, and journalist from Moldavia, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Emin ...
Poetry Prize (1998) and was proposed by Romanian Professional Writers Association for Nobel Prize
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in 1999.
Poetry collections
*Versuri (EPL, 1968)
*Poeme (Eminescu, 1970)
*Poesii (Cartea Românească, 1970)
*Alte versuri (Eminescu, 1972)
*Poem (Cartea Românească, 1973)
*Alte poeme (Albatros, 1973)
*Amintiri (Cartea Românească, 1973)
*Alte poesii (Dacia, 1976)
*Poesii nouă (Dacia, 1982)
*Poeme nouă (Cartea Românească, 1983)
*Alte poeme nouă (Cartea Românească 1986)
*Versuri vechi, nouă (Eminescu, 1988)
*Poeme alese (1966–1989)
*Poeme vechi, nouă (Cartea Românească, 1989)
*Versuri (Eminescu, 1996)
*Poezii (Vitruviu, 1997)
*Poesii vechi şi nouă, antologie (Minerva, 1999)
References
External links
Poems by Ivănescu
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20th-century Romanian poets
Romanian male poets
1931 births
2011 deaths