Dumitru Țepeneag, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dumitru Țepeneag

Romanian dissident

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1937

Place of Birth: Bucharest

Profession: writer, translator, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Dumitru ?epeneag (also known under the pen names Ed Pastenague and Dumitru Tsepeneag; b.
February 14, 1937) is a contemporary Romanian novelist, essayist, short story writer and translator, who currently resides in France.
He was one of the founding members of the Oniric group, and a theoretician of the Onirist trend in Romanian literature, while becoming noted for his activities as a dissident.
In 1975, the Communist regime stripped him of his citizenship.
He settled down in Paris, where he was a leading figure of the Romanian exile. In addition to his literary work, he is known for his independent left-wing views, which were influenced by libertarian socialism and anarchism.
Tepeneag is one of the most important Romanian translators of French literature, and has rendered into Romanian the works by New Left, avant-garde and Neo-Marxist authors such as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget, Albert Béguin, Jacques Derrida, and Alexandre Kojève.
The founder of the magazine Cahiers de l'Est, he has also translated texts by Romanian poets into French — examples include Leonid Dimov, Daniel Turcea, Ion Mure?an, Marta Petreu, Emil Brumaru, Mircea Ivanescu.
His wife, Mona ?epeneag, is herself a translator and essayist.