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Zaharia Stancu

Died in 1974

Zaharia Stancu was born in October 1902 in Salcia, in Teleorman county. A journalist from the early twenties, he completed studies in literature and philosophy in Bucharest in 1933 and directed the literary review Azi until 1940. Interned, according to Financiarul, in the Târgu Jiu camp for his antifascist ideas, after the war he directed the National Theatre of Bucharest from 1946 to 1952, presided several times over the Writers' Union, entered the Romanian Academy in 1955 and received the Herder Prize in 1971. He died on 5 December 1974.

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