- Ştefan Augustin Doinaş
Ştefan Augustin Doinaş (pen name of Ştefan Popa) (
April 26 1922 inCherechiu ,Bihor County ,Romania –May 25 ,2002 inBucharest , Romania) was aRomania n Neoclassical poet of the Communist era.After completing high school in Arad, he studied
philology inSibiu , where the University of Cluj had moved in the wake of the Hungarian occupation ofNorthern Transylvania . Here he joined theSibiu Literary Circle , a group formed aroundLucian Blaga .Doinaş published his first volume of poems, "Cartea mareelor", in 1964. Some of his most famous works include: "Omul cu compasul", "Seminţia lui Laokoon", "Anotimpul discret", "Interiorul unui poem", and "Lamentaţii". In 1992, he became a member of the
Romanian Academy , and in 2002, honorary president of theWriters' Union of Romania .Doinaş died of throat cancer. That night, his wife Silvia Lia Popa, a former first
ballerina whom he had married in 1958, committedsuicide .
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