Miron Radu Paraschivescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian journalist
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Place of Birth: Zimnicea, Teleorman County, Romania
About Miron Radu Paraschivescu
- Miron Radu Paraschivescu (Romanian pronunciation: [mi'ron 'radu ?paraski'vesku]; October 2, 1911– February 17, 1971) was a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and translator. Born in Zimnicea, Teleorman County, he went to high school in Ploie?ti, after which he studied fine arts, first in Cluj and later in Bucharest without graduating.
- He enrolled then at the Letters and Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest. A leftist in his youth (he joined the Union of Communist Youth in 1933), he wrote for many leftist papers and magazines of those days: "Cuvîntul liber", "Azi", "Facla", "Via?a româneasca", "Era noua", "Lumea româneasca", "Timpul", "Ecoul", "România libera", "Scînteia", sometimes under a pen name, among them Emil Soare and Paul Scor?eanu.
- After World War II, he wrote many propagandistic articles although it seems that he never became a member of the Communist Party.Being on friendly terms with many communist leaders from their days in the underground, like Gogu Radulescu, Miron Constantinescu, Constanta Craciun, Iosif Chisinevschi, Leonte Rautu, he was considered "invulnerable", and got away with criticizing the regime, mostly in private, when anybody else would have ended in prison for the same offence.
- Although he hoped, due to his antifascist past, to be given important government positions like his former comrades, he never got any, being sent instead to work for several magazines and papers.He and Sorin Toma bitterly criticized Tudor Arghezi in 1948, accusing him of being a representative of "decadent, bourgois art".In 1965, Paraschivescu took charge of the readers' column at the literary magazine Ramuri in Craiova, changing it in May 1966 into a four-page literary supplement called Povesta vorbei ("The Tale of Talk").
- It lasted only six numbers.
- He transformed it into a meeting place for a number of young avantgarde writers who had difficulty getting published by the established literary press.
- Among them were: Leonid Dimov, Virgil Mazilescu, Dumitru ?epeneag, Iulian Neac?u and Sanziana Pop. Known for being sometimes a "difficult person" and a "big mouth", Paraschivescu was hospitalized at least twice in mental institutions.Somewhat of a Don Juan, Paraschivescu was married five times.
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