Author · Romania
Ion Vinea
Died in 1964
Ion Vinea, whose real name was Ioan Eugen Iovanaki, was born in Giurgiu on 17 April 1895. While still at lycée, he founded the journal Simbolul in 1912 with Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, then, from 1922 to 1932, ran with Janco Contimporanul, the central journal of Romanian modernism. A prominent journalist, he was censored after the war, according to Sanda Cordoș, and returned late in life as a translator of Poe and Shakespeare. He died in Bucharest on 6 July 1964.