Laszlo Alexandru | |
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Born | Cluj | 4 May 1966
Occupation | essayist, literary critic, literary historian, translator, journalist, professor |
Nationality | Romanian, Hungarian |
Period | 1996– |
Genre | literature, language, history |
Subject | Dante, Medieval literature, Italian literature, Italian language, cultural history, historiography, Holocaust studies, translation studies, French literature |
Laszlo Alexandru (born 4 May 1966, Cluj) is a Romanian essayist, literary critic, literary historian, translator and journalist. He is an Italian teacher. He is editor of E-Leonardo [1] cultural magazine and coordinator of the Italian collection at the "Ecou Transilvan" Publishing House. [2] He is known for his Dante interpretation contributions [3] in the university field in Romania [4] and in Europe, [5] in the Romanian culture [6] and in the Italian culture. [7] Also known in Israel for his cultural studies on the Holocaust. [8] Since 2014, he is a member of the Romanian Writers' Union. [9] His books have been published in Romania [10] and in the Republic of Moldova. [11] [12] He won the Romanian Writers' 2020 Special Award for Lectura lui Dante. Infernul; Purgatoriul; Paradisul. [13] Knight (Cavaliere) of the Order of the Star of Italy by decree of the President of the Republic, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Foreign Affairs. [14]
Born in Cluj, Laszlo graduated from the Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), Cluj-Napoca, in 1989. He participated at the anti-communist rebellion from Cluj, in December 1989. He briefly described, in several published texts, the circumstances in which some revolutionaries from Cluj were shot [15]
Since 1992, he is a teacher of Italian at George Barițiu National College in Cluj-Napoca. [16] Editorial debut in 1996 with the volume Între Icar și Anteu. Ph.D. in Letters with the thesis Criticul literar Nicolae Manolescu , UBB, 1999.
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