Toma George Maiorescu

TOMA GEORGE MAIORESCU

Birth date/Location: December 8, 1928 in Resita, Romania to a long line of intellectuals; professors and magistrates.

Educated at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, Literaturni Institute, Moscow (1954), Post Graduate Studies, Cleveland (1992), Doctor in Humane Letters, Doctor Honoris Causa.

1954-1971 Editor “Contemporanul” Magazine; 1971-1982 Deputy Editor in Chief “Romania Pitoreasca” Magazine; 1990-Present Director of “ECO”.

Memberships

Active member of the “New York Academy of Sciences”; Member of the “Academie Internationale du Tourisme”, Monaco; Honor member of the “Academy of Ecology”, Romania; Active member of the “National Academy of Ecological Sciences”, Republic of Moldova.

Publications

PROSE: "A Trip Through Time", 1956; "The Place Where Cosmonauts Return", 1962; "Barefoot Gods", 1966; "A Dialogue with the Century, Volume I" 1967, "Volume II" 1972; "0,17 Operation", 1972; "Wandering About the Meridians", 1976; "Journal of the Passion", 1975; "A Romantic Invitation", 1983; "Good Night, Sagittarius!", 1989

BOOKS OF POEMS: "Tombstone from a Past Age", 1947; "Coming Back Home", 1955; "Contemporary Rhythms", 1960; "Daniela’s Eyes", 1963; "Steps Upon Waters", 1966; "Crucified Time", 1969; "The Killer and the Flower", 1970; "The Island with the Mauve Orchids", 1973; "The Blue Rider", 1975; "An Autumnal Equinox", 1977; "The Girls in the Square of the End", 1980; "Alone with Angel", 1982; "Break Between Words", 1984; "Poems", 1985.

Since 1990, Toma George Maiorescu has published the following books and has had his works translated in over 20 languages. "Strategy and Survival", Essays, 1992; "Poems/Poemes", Bilingual Definitive Edition, 1997; "Prose", Definitive Edition, 1998; "Introduction into Ecosophy", 2000; "Ecosophy" (A Course), 2001; "The Taming of the Beast Inside Man or the Ecosophy", 2001-2002 (in three successive, revised and expanded editions); "Under 50 Stars" (Poems), 2001; "Talking Sunset", Definitive Edition, 2002; "Five Board Diaries and the Thorn Crown", Definitive Edition, 2003; "Post Definitive" (Poems), 2005; "In Between Kilometer Zero and Golgota" (Essays), 2005; "Good Night, Sagittarius!", Revised Edition, 2005.

Activities Performed Since 1990

• Member of the Executive Bureau of the Provisional Council of National Unity (the main institution of the Romanian Revolution).• President and Founder of the Ecological Movement in Romania.• Head of the Chair of Ecosophy at the Ecological University in Bucharest, Romania. • Director of the magazines ECO, ECOMAGAZIN, and ECOSOPHIA.• Counselor of the National Council of the Audiovisual.• President of the European Foundation for the Ecological Education and Culture.

Toma George Maiorescu is the recipient of a multitude of National and International Awards.

Well known by readers throughout the world through translations of his works by the following writers: David Samoilov, Kirill Kovaldji, Evgheni Evtusenko in Russian, Geir Campos in Portuguese, Per Olof Ekstrom in Swedish, Radu Cretzeanu, Andree Fleury, Ioan Matei and Paul Miclau in French, Melike Roman in Turkish, Menelaos Ludemis and Dimos Rendis in Greek, Prabhjot Kaur in Hindi, Pablo Neruda si Omar Lara in Spanish, Oscar Pastior in German, Franyo Zoltan and Balogh Iozsef in Hungarian, Eva Strebingerova in Czech, Shlomo David in Hebrew, Ognan Stamboliev in Bulgarian, O. Girjgan in Esperanto, etc…