Ștefan Augustin Doinaș, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian writer
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Place of Birth: Caporal Alexa, Arad County, Romania
About Ștefan Augustin Doinaș
- ?tefan Augustin Doina? (Romanian pronunciation: [?te'fan awgus'tin doj'na?]; pen name of ?tefan Popa) (April 26, 1922 – May 25, 2002) was a Romanian Neoclassical poet of the Communist era. Doinas was born in Cherechiu, Bihor County.
- After completing high school in Arad, he studied philology in Sibiu, where the University of Cluj had moved in the wake of the Hungarian occupation of Northern Transylvania.
- Here he joined the Sibiu Literary Circle, a group formed around Lucian Blaga. Doina? published his first volume of poems, Cartea mareelor, in 1964.
- Some of his most famous works include: Omul cu compasul, Semin?ia lui Laokoon, Anotimpul discret, Interiorul unui poem and Lamenta?ii.
- In 1992, he became a member of the Romanian Academy, and in 2002, honorary president of the Writers' Union of Romania. Doina? died of throat cancer in Bucharest.
- That night, his wife Silvia Lia Popa, a former first ballerina whom he had married in 1958, committed suicide.
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