Miron Radu Paraschivescu
| Miron Radu Paraschivescu | |
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| Born |
October 2, 1911 Zimnicea, Teleorman County, Romania |
| Died | February 17, 1971 (aged 59) Bucharest, Romania |
| Pen name | MRP |
| Language | Romanian |
| Nationality |
 Romania
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| Citizenship | Romania |
| Education | Department of Letters and Philosophy |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
| Period | 1929-1971 |
| Notable works | Cântice ţigăneşti |
| Notable awards | The Romanian Academy's "George Coșbuc" Award (1956) |
Miron Radu Paraschivescu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈron ˈradu ˌparasciˈvesku]; October 2, 1911– February 17, 1971) was a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and translator.
Born in Zimnicea, Teleorman County, he went to high school in Ploiești, after which he studied fine arts, first in Cluj and later in Bucharest without graduating. He enrolled then at the Letters and Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest.
A leftist in his youth (he joined the Union of Communist Youth in 1933), he wrote for many leftist papers and magazines of those days: "Cuvîntul liber", "Azi", "Facla", "Viața românească", "Era nouă", "Lumea românească", "Timpul", "Ecoul", "România liberă", "Scînteia", sometimes under a pen name, among them Emil Soare and Paul Scorțeanu. After World War II, he wrote many propagandistic articles although it seems that he never became a member of the Communist Party.
Being on friendly terms with many communist leaders from their days in the underground, like Gogu Rădulescu, Miron Constantinescu, Constanţa Crăciun, Iosif Chişinevschi, Leonte Răutu, he was considered "invulnerable", and got away with criticizing the regime, mostly in private, when anybody else would have ended in prison for the same offence. Although he hoped, due to his antifascist past, to be given important government positions like his former comrades, he never got any, being sent instead to work for several magazines and papers.
He and Sorin Toma bitterly criticized Tudor Arghezi in 1948, accusing him of being a representative of "decadent, bourgois art".
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