Mihai Rădulescu, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Mihai Rădulescu

Romanian writer

Date of Birth: 15-May-1936

Date of Death: 20-Jan-2009

Profession: poet, historian

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Mihai Radulescu (Romanian pronunciation: [mi'haj r?du'lesku]; May 15, 1936 in Bucharest – January 20, 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian novelist, poet, historian and art critic. In November 1956, while he was a second year student at the School of English Studies, Department of Letters, University of Bucharest, he was arrested for participating in a political protest, and sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment, which he spent at Jilava, Gherla, Periprava, Salcia and Luciu-Giurgeni.
In 1963, he restarted his studies, graduating from the same School of English Studies of the University of Bucharest.
He then became a high school teacher, a junior lecturer at his alma mater, and, from 1979 a lecturer in English and French at the Theological Institute in Bucharest.After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he started the publishing company "Ramida".