Geo Bogza

Gheorghe Bogza was born on 6 February 1908 in Blejoi, near Ploiești; his brother Nicolae wrote under the name Radu Tudoran. He trained for the navy, in Constanța notably, without making it his career, edited the avant-garde review Urmuz in 1928 and wrote in unu. Prosecuted for pornography, he was acquitted in November 1932, then imprisoned at Văcărești for his next book. Having become one of the masters of literary reportage, he entered the Romanian Academy in 1955 and died in Bucharest on 14 September 1993.

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• PoetryJurnal de sexGeo Bogza · 1929not translated into EnglishLiterature