Dan Deșliu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dan Deșliu

Romanian poet

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1927

Place of Birth: Bucharest

Date of Death: 04-Sep-1992

Profession: actor, poet, politician, diarist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


Show Famous Birthdays Today, Romania

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Dan Deșliu

  • Dan De?liu (August 31, 1927 – September 4, 1992) was a Romanian poet. Born in Bucharest, his parents were ?tefan De?liu, an accountant at the Bulandra theatre company and later administrator of the Workers' Theatre, and his wife Elena (née Sandulescu).
  • He began secondary school at Matei Basarab Lyceum in his native city, followed by the Media? aeronautics school and the Bucharest industrial and building high school.
  • He then attended the Dramatic Arts Conservatory under Maria Filotti.
  • From 1946 to 1948, he appeared as an actor at Petro?ani and Bucharest, also working as an editor for Flacara magazine.
  • He was later an editor at Scînteia and, between 1961 and 1962, was editor-in-chief at Luceafarul.
  • His first published work was the sonnet "Paseri", which appeared in George Calinescu's Lumea in 1945; his first book was the 1949 Goarnele inimii.
  • He won the State Prize in 1949, 1950 and 1951, and in 1974 was awarded the Romanian Writers' Union Prize for his book Cetatea de pe aer.
  • In 1978, he took the same prize for Un haiduc pe bicicleta.
  • Together with Eugen Frunza, he composed the lyrics for "Te slavim, Românie", which served as Romania's national anthem from 1953 to 1977.During the 1940s and '50s, he quickly came to the literary forefront as a representative poet of his era, much lauded for his militant socialist realist poetry that enthusiastically chronicled the events of the day.
  • This was embodied by his first book as well as the ones that followed across the next decade: Lazar de la Rusca (1949), Minerii din Maramure? (1951), Cântec de ruina (1957) and Ceva mai greu (1958).
  • Afterwards, he attempted a shift toward a skeptically elegiac, obsessive lyricism that dealt with regret and lack of fulfillment (Cercuri de copac, 1962; Drumul spre Dikson, 1969; Cetatea de pe aer, 1974).Starting in 1962 and particularly from 1970, he began to criticize the policies of the Romanian Communist Party, and as a result was placed under thorough surveillance by the Securitate secret police.
  • In the 1980s, he turned toward open dissidence, repudiating his "revolutionary" past, quitting the party in 1980 and directly criticizing dictator Nicolae Ceau?escu, whom he accused of behaving as if he were "the owner of Romania".
  • In March 1989, he sent an open letter to Radio Free Europe decrying the domestic situation in his country, prompting his placement under house arrest.
  • An excellent swimmer, De?liu drowned at Neptun nearly three years after the Romanian Revolution; it is unknown whether his death was accidental or deliberate.
  • After a thorough search covering the 20 km between Costine?ti and Vama Veche, his intact body was found after eight days beside the dock of Ceau?escu's former villa in Neptun.
  • A diary of his, likely written in 1990-1991, appeared in 2001.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also