Mihail Drumeș, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mihail Drumeș

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1901

Place of Birth: Ohrid, Southwestern Statistical Region, North Macedonia

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1982

Profession: writer

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Mihail Drumeș

  • Mihail Drume? (born Mihail V.
  • Dumitrescu; November 26, 1901–February 27, 1982) was an Ottoman-born Romanian prose writer and playwright. He was born into an Aromanian family in Ohrid, a city that formed part of the Ottoman Empire's Manastir Vilayet and is now in North Macedonia.
  • His parents were Vasile Dimitrie (later Dumitrescu), a bucket-maker, and his wife Despina (née Gero).
  • The family emigrated to Bal?, in the Oltenia region of the Romanian Old Kingdom.
  • Mihail attended primary school there, followed by high school in Caracal and Craiova, belatedly taking his degree in 1935.
  • He studied at the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University, graduating in 1928.
  • For a time, he was a high school teacher, later moving on to the university system.His first published work appeared in the Craiova magazine Flamura in 1922.
  • His first book, the 1927 Capcana, included short stories and sketches.
  • From 1938 to 1948, he headed Editura Bucur Ciobanu.
  • Drume? achieved unusual popularity through the novels Sfântul Parere, first published in 1930, retitled Cazul Magheru from the second printing and running for eighteen; and Invita?ie la vals (1939; 34 printings).
  • His work appeared in Ramuri, Adevarul literar ?i artistic, Rampa, Convorbiri Literare, Vremea, Falanga and Universul literar.Drume? also published theatrical plays: Naluca (1940) and Trei comedii.
  • ?coala nevestelor.
  • Calul de curse.
  • Lini?tea so?ului (1940).
  • Later in life, he wrote historical novels such as Se revarsa apele (1961) and Codrul Vlasiei (1966), in an attempt to rework his style and epic manner.
  • His output is melodramatic, erotic and has vague social implications.
  • He left behind in manuscript form several plays, radio and television screenplays, dramatizations and memoirs.

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