Literary critic Alex Stefanescu has died, writer Daniel Cristea Enake reported on Facebook.

Alexandru Ştefănescu, literary critic and novelist, was born on November 6, 1947 in Lugozh. He graduated from high school in Suceava in 1965, then attended courses at the Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest (1965-1970), points to the “General Dictionary of Romanian Literature” published under the auspices of the University of Romania. Academy (Encyclopedic publishing house Univers, Bucharest, 2007)

He was a teacher for a short period, after which he started publishing, being the editor of the publications “Tomis” (1971-1974), “Scânteia tinertului” (1975-1982), “Literary and artistic supplement of Iskra”. youth” (1982-1983), “Free Romania” (1984-1986), “Magazin” (1987-1989). Since 1990, he was the editor of “Romania literară”, and in 1995-2010 he was the editor-in-chief of this magazine. He was also the director of the magazine “Zig-zag” (1991-1994) and the editor-in-chief of “Flacăra” (1996).

He debuted in 1965 with poetry in the newspaper Zori noi from Suceava, and with criticism in 1970 with an article about Dimitrije Stelaru published in Luceafărul, according to the cited source. Since 1977, a member of the Union of Writers.

He published numerous volumes of literary criticism, literary theory, anthologies of literature, prose, theater, journalism. Among them we will mention: “Prelude” (1977), “Critic’s Diary” (1980), “Between Yes and No” (1982), “Dialogue in the Library” (1984), “Getting to Know the Works of Nikita Stanescu” (1986), ” Prime plan” (1987), “Ice from radiators and ice from whiskey. Political Diary 1990-1995” (1996, Writers’ Union Award), “Incidents” (2000), “Something Similar to Literature” (2003). , Bucharest Writers Association Award), “Secret Diary” (2005), “Secret Diary. New Revelations” (2007), “Secret Diary. Full disclosures. 2003-2009” (2009), “A man sleeping in a chair. Events”. ” ( 2010), “How to evoke emotion” (2010), “Vain texts” (2014), “Secret diary. New series (2009-2015)” (2016) and others. In 2013, Ioana Revnik’s book “Conversations with Alex Stefanescu” was published.

He also compiled an anthology of critical references to the work of Tudor Arghezi (1981) and others from the texts of some modern poets (1988) or from the works of Nikita Stanescu (1999). He translated Andre Frossard’s book “God Exists, I Met Him” ​​(1993).

In 2005, he published the book “The History of Modern Romanian Literature. 1941-2000” (“Drukarska Mashinka” Publishing House, Bucharest), for which he was awarded a special prize of the Union of Writers in 2006, and in 2007 – the “Lucian Blaga” Prize of the Romanian Academy.

Alex. Stefanescu is the author of thousands of literary and critical articles. He has also written plays and scripts for television, such as the script for TVR’s The Impossible Marriage in 2000.

He directed the show “Cubic Meter of Culture” broadcast on Realitatea TV (2004-2005), which won him the Romanian Association of Television Broadcasters (APTR) talk show award in 2004. He was also a producer on TVR Cultural, the show “The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature as Told by Alex Stefanescu” (2007-2009), for which he won the APTR Award for Cultural Shows in 2008. Also for TVR Cultural he also produced the shows “Thichia de margărăritar” and “Public Lighting”.