George Mihail Zamfirescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian prose writer and playwright
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Place of Birth: Bucharest
About George Mihail Zamfirescu
- George Mihail Zamfirescu (born Gheorghe Petre Mihai; October 13, 1898–August 8, 1939) was a Romanian prose writer and playwright. He was born in Bucharest, the son of Petre Mihai, a drayman, and his wife Lina (Raluca) Costache.
- Between 1905 and 1916, he attended primary school and six grades at Cantemir High School.
- From 1917 to 1918, he went to a Boto?ani school for training reserve officers, and saw action in World War I in 1918.
- That year, he made his literary debut with the poem "Versurile mele" in Literatorul, and became a frequent participant in Alexandru Macedonski's circle.
- In 1920, he founded the Association of young Romanian writers and Eroii patriei magazine.From 1922 to 1924, he was a civil servant handling social insurance in Satu Mare, in the recently acquired Transylvania province.
- While there, he founded the Society for Romanian theatre and culture, and published his first volume, the 1924 Flamura alba.
- Back in Bucharest, he obtained a post as librarian at the Libertatea Circle.
- A period of intense journalistic activity followed, including the drama column in Vremea review.
- In 1929, he was a director at the national theatre in Cernau?i.
- At Bucharest, he founded the dramatic companies Masca (1931) and 13+1 (1932), seeking to create a revolution in the theatrical milieu.As a director at the Ia?i National Theatre from 1933 to 1939, he staged twenty-five plays.
- He was an editor at Facla (1932), Adevarul and Diminea?a (1937-1938).
- He authored the prose volumes Gazda cu ochii umezi (1926) and Miss (1942), the novel Madona cu trandafiri (1931) and the epic cycle Bariera (Maidanul cu dragoste, 1933; Sfânta mare neru?inare, 1936; Cântecul destinelor, 1939).
- His plays include Cuminecatura (1925), Domni?oara Nastasia (1927), Sam (1929), Adonis (1930) and Idolul ?i Ion Anapoda (1935).
- His 1938 book Marturii în contemporaneitate, which contains articles about the theatre, reflects the concerns of a prominent figure of the interwar Romanian stage.His daughter was the actress Raluca Zamfirescu.
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