Dumitru Țepeneag
Romanian novelist, essayist, short story writer and translator / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dumitru Țepeneag (also known under the pen names Ed Pastenague and Dumitru Tsepeneag; b. February 14, 1937) is a contemporary Romanian novelist, essayist, short story writer and translator, who currently resides in France. He was one of the founding members of the Oniric group, and a theoretician of the Onirist trend in Romanian literature, while becoming noted for his activities as a dissident. In 1975, the Communist regime stripped him of his citizenship. He settled down in Paris, where he was a leading figure of the Romanian exile.
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Born | (1937-02-14) February 14, 1937 (age 87) Bucharest, Romania |
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Nationality | Romanian |
Period | 1966– |
Notable works | Vain Art of the Fugue, Hôtel Europa, Pigeon Post |
In addition to his literary work, he is known for his independent left-wing views, which were influenced by libertarian socialism and anarchism.[1][2][3] Țepeneag is one of the most important Romanian translators of French literature, and has rendered into Romanian the works by New Left, avant-garde and Neo-Marxist authors such as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget, Albert Béguin, Jacques Derrida, and Alexandre Kojève.[4] The founder of the magazine Cahiers de l'Est, he has also translated texts by Romanian poets into French — examples include Leonid Dimov, Daniel Turcea, Ion Mureșan, Marta Petreu, Emil Brumaru, Mircea Ivănescu.[4] His wife, Mona Țepeneag, is herself a translator and essayist.