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Place of Birth: Puchenii-Moșneni, Prahova County, Romania
About Simion Stolnicu
- Simion Stolnicu (pen name of Alexandru I.
- Botez; November 6, 1905–November 29, 1966) was a Romanian poet. Born in Puchenii-Mo?neni, Prahova County, his parents were Al.
- Botez, a Caile Ferate Române clerk, and his wife Ecaterina (née Ionescu).
- He attended primary school in his native village from 1914 to 1918, under the name Alexandrescu I.
- Alexandru.
- He then went to Saint Sava National College in Bucharest from 1918 to 1925, taking the final years of high school privately at Câmpina.
- He studied at the University of Bucharest from 1932 to 1938, graduating from the literature faculty, with a specialty in French and Italian.
- He taught high school in Bucharest, Ploie?ti, Câmpina and, from 1949, Comarnic.He made his literary debut in 1924, with poems published in the Cluj magazine Cosânzeana under the name Al.
- I.
- Alexandrescu.
- In 1925, verses of his appeared in Adevarul literar under the name Al.
- I.
- Botez.
- He first wrote as Simion Stolnicu, a name suggested by Eugen Lovinescu, in Sburatorul in 1926.
- He founded Rapsodul magazine in Ploie?ti in 1927.
- Other publications that ran his work include Bilete de Papagal, Kalende, Vremea, Ulise, Abecedar, Azi, Revista Funda?iilor Regale and Universul literar.
- His first volume of poetry was Punct vernal, followed by Pod eleat (1935).
- He died in Gura Beliei, near Comarnic.
- The posthumous ?erpuiri între lut ?i tor?ele de aur (1973), aside from older poems, includes verses from 1935 to 1966.
- A second posthumous volume is Printre scriitori ?i arti?ti (1988).
- Poems, prose, drama, essays and memoirs remain as unpublished manuscripts.
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