Ion Caraion
Illustration — Caraion in exile Ion Caraion (pen name of Stelian Diaconescu; May 24, 1923 – July 21, 1986) was a Romanian poet, essayist and translator. Ion Caraion was born in Rușavăț, Buzău County, he attended primary school at Râmnicu Sărat from 1930 to 1934, followed by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu High School in Buzău from 1934 to 1942. While there, together with Alexandru Lungu, he edited Zarathustra poetry magazine with his own funds from 1940 to 1941.
Also recorded as Stelian Diaconescu
Ion Caraion

Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu (coord.), Scriitori români, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, București, 1978, p. 132. · Public domain
- Full name
- Stelian Diaconescu.
- Born
- 1923. · Pălici.
- Died
- 1986. · Lausanne.
- Nationality
- Romania.
- Occupation
- poet, literary critic, translator, journalist and librettist.
- Education
- Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu National College and University of Bucharest.
- Languages
- Romanian and French.
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Ion Caraion vécut de 1923 à 1986 et figure dans les notices d'autorité de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Recorded at birth as Stelian Diaconescu. Born at Pălici in 1923, died in Lausanne in 1986.
Ion Caraion studied at Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu National College and University of Bucharest. The recorded working language is Romanian and French.
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- 1.Șerban, Alex. Leo. La o noua lectură: Ion Caraion. România Literară. XXXVI. 11. November 2025.
- 2.IICCMER - Fișe Matricole: Diaconescu Stelian. IICCMER.
- 3.Aurel Sasu (ed.), Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, vol. I, p. 271-72. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.
- 4.Strada Ion Caraion. orasul.biz.
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