Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est

Romanian poet and prose writer

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1881

Date of Death: 12-Mar-1980

Profession: judge, lawyer, poet, caricaturist, children's writer

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Eugeniu ?tefanescu-Est (also known as Eugen ?tefanescu-Est or Eugeniu Est, born Eugeniu Gh.
?tefanescu; March 14 [O.S.
March 2] 1881 – March 12, 1980) was a Romanian poet, prose writer and visual artist, professionally active as a lawyer.
He was active on the local Symbolist scene from ca.
1900, when he also became an associate and disciple of Ion Minulescu.
Before Worled War I, while he took up jobs as a magistrate, his synaesthesic and extrovert lyrical pieces earned attention, while his cartoons were taken up in magazines such as L'Assiette au Beurre and Furnica.
He abandoned the verse genre by the 1920s, earning attention as the author of fairy tales, and then also trying his hand as a novelist.
Eventually losing his eyesight, ?tefanescu-Est spent the last thirty years of his life in anonymity, looked after by his daughter.