Vasile Voiculescu
| Vasile Voiculescu | |
|---|---|
| Born |
27 November 1884 Pârscov, Romania |
| Died | 26 April 1963 (aged 78) Bucharest, Romania |
| Occupation | Poet, short story writer, playwright, physician |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Period | 1912–1958 |
| Genre | lyric poetry, drama, novel, short story, sonnet |
| Subject | supernatural fiction, religion |
| Literary movement | Expressionism |
Vasile Voiculescu (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile vojkuˈlesku], literary pseudonym V. Voiculescu; 27 November 1884 – 26 April 1963) was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.
Voiculescu was born in Pârscov, Buzău County, Romania, to a family of wealthy peasants. He attended primary school in Pleşcoi, a village near his home, for a year, after which he was sent to a boarding school in Buzău. He attended high school in Buzău, then in Bucharest — the Gheorghe Lazăr High School, where he befriended George Ciprian, an aspiring actor at that time, and the young writer Urmuz.
Upon graduating high school in 1902, he read Philosophy for a year at the University of Bucharest before starting his medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine. He became a doctor of medicine in 1910.
March 1912 marked Voiculescu's debut as a poet with Dor ("Longing"), a poem first published in Convorbiri Literare. He managed to publish a volume of poems in 1916, but the German Empire forces occupying Bucharest (see Romanian Campaign (World War I)) destroyed all copies. In 1918, he published the volume Din ţara zimbrului ("From Wisent's Land").
Between the two world wars, he lived in Bucharest and held a series of public conferences on medicine, broadcast on radio and aimed primarily at peasant audiences. He wrote poetry of religious persuasion, themed around the birth of Christ, Magi, and Crucifixion. His literary style gradually became Expressionistic.
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