Romanian literature is the entirety of literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language or by any authors native to Romania.
Marin Sorescu was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist.
Nichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist.
Tudor Vianu was a Romanian literary critic, art critic, poet, philosopher, academic, and translator. He had a major role on the reception and development of Modernism in Romanian literature and art. He was married to Elena Vianu, herself a literary critic, and was the father of Ion Vianu, a psychiatrist, writer and essayist.
Leon Levițchi was a Romanian philologist and translator who specialised in the study of the English language and literature.
Matei Alexe Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.
Ruth Fainlight FRSL is an American-born poet, short story writer, translator and librettist based in the United Kingdom.
The National Theatre Bucharest is one of the national theatres of Romania, located in the capital city of Bucharest.
George Grigore or Gheorghe Grigore is a Romanian writer, essayist, translator, professor and researcher in Middle Eastern studies.
Dragoș Protopopescu was a Romanian writer, poet, critic, philosopher, and far-right politician.
Laura Pavel is a Romanian essayist and literary critic.
George Macovescu was a Romanian writer and communist politician who served as the General Secretary of Ministry of Information of Romania and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania.
Constantin George Sandulescu was a Joycean scholar, but in the first place, he was a linguist with twelve years' experience in the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Stockholm in the 1970s and 1980s, specializing in Discourse Analysis. In that capacity he read a dozen or so papers at various international congresses.
The Popescu Prize is a biennial poetry award established in 1983. It is given by the Poetry Society for a volume of poetry translated from a European language into English. Formerly called the European Poetry Translation Prize (1983–1997), the prize was relaunched in 2003, renamed in memory of the Romanian translator Corneliu M. Popescu, who died at age 19 in 1977 and was known as the Corneliu M Popescu Prize that year and in 2005. Popescu translated the work of one of Romania's leading poets, Mihai Eminescu, into English. The prize of £1,500 is awarded to a translator. Financial support has been provided by the Ratiu Foundation since 2003.
Doamna Chiajna (1525–1588) was a Princess consort of Wallachia. She was married to Mircea the Shepherd. She was regent in Wallachia from 1559 to 1575.
Eugen Munteanu is a Romanian linguist. He specializes in Biblical philology, historical lexicology and the philosophy of language.
Ana Cartianu was a Romanian academic, essayist and translator.
Mircea Roman is a Romanian sculptor. Mircea's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 200 USD to 5,435 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.
Viorel Cosma was a Romanian musician and teacher who came to wider prominence as an exceptionally prolific musicologist and a pioneering lexicographer. Through his scholarship he also achieved distinction as a teacher, researcher and music critic. Between 1989 and 2012 he produced a ten volume lexicon, running to 2,800 pages, entitled "Muzicieni din România", providing extensive information on approximately 1,500 Romanian composers and musicians, musicologists, music critics, music teachers, folklorists and other contributors to Romanian music and musicianship.
Maria-Ana Tupan is a Romanian university professor, literary critic, and translator. She is a member of the "Criticism and Literary History" section of the Writers' Union of Romania and several international scientific societies. Tupan is also a PhD Supervisor at the Doctoral School of 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia.
