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Adrian Păunescu
Adrian Păunescu (1943–2010) was a Romanian poet, journalist, editor, and politician, best known as founder of Cenaclul Flacăra, whose traveling shows drew over 6 million spectators before its ban in 1985.
Alexandru Vlahuță
Alexandru Vlahuță (1858–1919) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, and publicist, best known for the travel volume România pitorească (1901) and a monograph on painter Nicolae Grigorescu.
Cezar Bolliac
Cezar Bolliac, also spelled Cesar Boliac, was a Romanian Romantic poet, journalist, and archaeologist (1813–1881), a leader of the 1848 Wallachian revolution and a founder of Romanian archaeology.
Dimitrie Anghel
Dimitrie Anghel (1872–1914) was a Romanian symbolist poet, prose writer, and translator known as the "poet of flowers" for his garden imagery and for writing with Șt. O. Iosif under the shared pseudonym A. Mirea.
Dimitrie Bolintineanu
Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819–1872) was a Romanian poet and politician, a participant in the 1848 Wallachian Revolution and one of the founders of the Romanian novel.
Elena Farago
Elena Farago, born Elena Paximade (1878–1954), was a Romanian poet, translator, and publicist best known for her children's poetry and for directing the Aman Foundation in Craiova.
Eliezer Shteynbarg
Eliezer Shteynbarg (אליעזר שטיינבאַרג, 1880–1932) was a Yiddish poet, educator, and fabulist born in Lipkany, Bessarabia, who wrote about 150 rhymed fables and led Jewish cultural life in interwar Romania.
George Bacovia
George Bacovia, born George Andone Vasiliu, was a Romanian symbolist poet whose debut volume Plumb (1916) is considered the point at which Romanian symbolism gained definitive recognition.
George Coșbuc
George Coșbuc (1866–1918) was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist from Transylvania, best remembered for verses about rural life and Romanian translations of Homer, Virgil, and Dante.
George Topîrceanu
George Topîrceanu (1886–1937) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, and publicist known for his humorous and parodic verse, and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi (1788–1869) was a Moldavian and Romanian scholar, poet, journalist, and engineer who founded Romanian-language education, the press, and theater in Moldavia, publishing the newspaper Albina românească.
Ienăchiță Văcărescu
Ienăchiță Văcărescu (c. 1740 – 1797) was a Wallachian boyar poet, philologist, and historian who wrote one of the first printed Romanian grammars, published at Râmnic in 1787.
Ovid Densusianu
Ovid Densusianu (Ovid Densușianu) was a Romanian philologist, linguist, and poet, a professor at the University of Bucharest who founded the Bucharest linguistic school and promoted symbolism.
Vasile Alecsandri
Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890) was a Romanian poet, dramatist, folklorist, politician, and diplomat, a leading figure of the 1848 generation who wrote the Pasteluri and Chirița comedies and campaigned for the union of the Romanian Principalities.