Gala Galaction
| Gala Galaction | |
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Omul unei lumi noi ("The Man of a New World"), 1920 portrait of Gala Galaction by Nicolae Tonitza
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| Born |
April 16, 1879 Didești |
| Died | March 8, 1961 (aged 81) Bucharest |
| Occupation | priest, theologian, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, journalist, translator, diarist |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Period | 1900–1961 |
| Genre | fiction, fantasy, travel literature, biography |
| Subject | Christian theology |
| Literary movement |
Realism Poporanism Sămănătorul |
Gala Galaction (IPA: /'ga.la ga.lak.ti'on/; the pen name of Grigore or Grigorie Pișculescu; April 16, 1879—March 8, 1961) was a Romanian Orthodox clergyman and theologian, writer, journalist, left-wing activist, as well as a political figure of the People's Republic of Romania. Contrary to the spirit of the time, he was a promoter of tolerance towards the Jewish minority.
He was born in the village of Didești, Teleorman County, the son of a wealthy peasant and a priest's daughter. His father had traveled throughout the Balkans on business, and had settled down as an estate lessee.
After completing his primary studies in his native village and in Roșiorii de Vede (1888–1890), he went on to study at the Saint Sava National College in Bucharest (1890–1898), and, after a period of studying philosophy at the University of Bucharest, took a degree in Theology at Czernowitz University. During the period, Galaction began to take an interest in literature, and was briefly influenced by the ideas of Sâr Péladan, a French occultist and poet. He debuted in 1900 with the novella Moara lui Călifar ("Călifar's Mill"), a sinister story on the subject of demonic temptation; nevertheless, his growing interest in Orthodoxy led him to abandon literature for the following ten years — his 1914 volume of collected stories, comprising La Vulturi! (one of his most famous pieces of writing), was awarded the Romanian Academy prize.
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