Duiliu Zamfirescu
| Duiliu Zamfirescu | |
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| Born |
30 October 1858 Dumbrăveni, Vrancea County |
| Died | 3 June 1922 (aged 63) Agapia |
| Pen name | Don Padil |
| Occupation | novelist, poet, short story writer, journalist, memoirist, politician, diplomat, lawyer, schoolteacher |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Period | 1877–1920 |
| Genre | fiction, lyric poetry, autobiography |
| Literary movement | Neoclassicism, Parnassianism, Realism, Romanticism, Literatorul, Junimea |
Duiliu Zamfirescu (30 October 1858 – 3 June 1922) was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a while in 1920, he was Foreign Minister of Romania. Zamfirescu is best remembered for his Comăneștenilor literary cycle, comprising his novels Viața la țară, Tănase Scatiu, În război, Îndreptări and Anna.
Born in Plăinești, Râmnicu Sărat County (present-day Dumbrăveni, Vrancea County), he attended elementary school and gymnasium in Focșani, and later studied at the Matei Basarab High School in Bucharest (1873–1876), before entering the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Law. He graduated in 1880.
Zamfirescu made his debut with a series of poems in Ghimpele review (1877), and, later in the same year, became an enthusiastic supporter of the Romanian war effort during the Independence War, an experience which placed its mark on his later works and choice of subjects. Three years later, he became associated with Alexandru Macedonski's Literatorul, a circle of Symbolist writers, publishing a Romantic poem titled Levante și Kalavryta ("Levante and Kalavryta"). At the time, his work was under the influence of Macedonski's Parnassianism.
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