Author · Romania
Camil Petrescu
Died in 1957
Camil Petrescu was born in April 1894 in Bucharest; deprived of his parents early, he was raised by a nurse from the Moșilor district. A pupil at the Saint-Sava college, he studied philosophy in Bucharest. Mobilised in 1916, he was wounded, taken prisoner and released in 1918, and lost the hearing in one ear according to ProTV. A teacher in Timișoara, he directed the National Theatre in Bucharest from 1939, entered the Romanian Academy in 1948 and died in Bucharest on 14 May 1957.
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- NovelThe Bed of ProcrustesPatul lui ProcustCamil Petrescu · 1933Literature