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Aurel Baranga

Died in 1979

Aurel Leibovici, who took the name Aurel Baranga, was born in 1913 in Bucharest, into a Jewish family. He published his first poems in avant-garde reviews, including unu, co-edited the review Alge in 1930 and 1931, and graduated in medicine from the University of Bucharest. After the war, he devoted himself to writing, was among the first to denounce the deportation of Romania's Jews to Transnistria, and produced successful satirical comedies. Deputy director of the National Theatre of Bucharest, he died on 10 June 1979.

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