Gellu Naum

Gellu Naum was born on 1 August 1915 in Bucharest; his father, the poet Andrei Naum, was killed at Mărășești. He studied philosophy in Bucharest, then in Paris from 1938, where he prepared a thesis on Abelard; the painter Victor Brauner put him in touch with André Breton. In 1941, with Gherasim Luca, Paul Păun, Dolfi Trost and Virgil Teodorescu, he founded the Bucharest surrealist group. Once socialist realism had been imposed, he published books for children and translated Beckett and Kafka. He died on 29 September 2001.

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• NovelZenobiaGellu Naum · 1985Literature