Virgil Ierunca
Illustration — Virgil Ierunca in 1994 Virgil Ierunca (born Virgil Untaru unˈtaru; August 16, 1920, Lădești, Vâlcea County – September 28, 2006, Paris) was a Romanian literary critic, journalist, and poet. He was married to Monica Lovinescu. Both Ierunca and Lovinescu worked for several decades for Radio Free Europe.
Virgil Ierunca
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- Born
- 1920 · Lădești.
- Died
- 2006 · 20th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- Romania
- Occupation
- journalist · writer · literary critic · poet
- Honours
- Order of the Star of Romania
- Languages
- Romanian
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Illustration — Virgil Ierunca in 1994 Virgil Ierunca (born Virgil Untaru unˈtaru; August 16, 1920, Lădești, Vâlcea County – September 28, 2006, Paris) was a Romanian literary critic, journalist, and poet. He was married to Monica Lovinescu. Both Ierunca and Lovinescu worked for several decades for Radio Free Europe.
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In 2006 both were members of the Romanian Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania; the Commission's chairman, Vladimir Tismăneanu, called them "the most honest and dignified couple in the history of Romanian culture". In December 2023, a monumental ensemble featuring statues of Ierunca and Lovinescu united by a stainless steel mantle, next to a tree of evil (a parable of the Securitate agents that had infiltrated Radio Free Europe) was inaugurated in the Cotroceni neighborhood of Bucharest.
The recorded working language is Romanian. Work by Virgil Ierunca is recorded in the collections of Lovinescu–Ierunca Collection at Oradea University Library, Sanda Budiș Collection at IICCMER and Lovinescu–Ierunca Collection at Central National Historical Archives (ANIC) Bucharest. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Star of Romania.
• Fenomenul Pitești (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1990) • Românește (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1991) • Subiect şi predicat (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1993) • Dimpotrivă (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1994) • Semnul mirării (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995) • Trecut-au anii (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 2000) • Poeme de exil (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 2001)
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- 1.Richard Wurmbrand : L’église du silence torturée pour le Christ, Apostolat des Éditions, 1969, .
- 2.Le centre de « rééducation révolutionnaire » de Pitești (situé dans le nord-ouest de la ville et réputé pour le sinistre Eugen Țurcanu, ancien prisonnier « rééduqué » devenu tortionnaire, voir ), a aussi été décrit et analysé par Irina Talaban dans sa thèse de doctorat en psychologie clinique et psychopathologie, Université de Paris-VIII, 1998.
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