Gelu Ionescu was born 8 June 1937 in Galați, Galați County, Romania to Ghiță Ionescu and Antoaneta Constantinescu . He married Alexandra Filotti (1947-) .
Gelu Ionescu - pseudonym for Gheorghe Ionescu (b. 1937), literary critic and historian, essayist, journalist, editor at Radio Europa Liberă (1983-1995).
He was then an assistant lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory of the Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature, Bucharest University, from 1963 until 1982, the year in which he went into exile. Doctor in philology from the University of Bucharest in 1973, specialized in comparative literature. He was Senior Program Editor at Radio Europa Libera for twelve years, political commentator and producer of the Romanian Cultural Current Affairs program .
From 1995 he was a lecturer of Romanian literature and language at the Institute of Romance Studies of the University of Heidelberg until 2002, when he retired. He lives in Germany, in Munich, since 1983. Member of the Writers' Union since 1976. He was a contributor, from 1962 until today, to the magazines: Contemporanul , Viața românescă , Amfiteatru , România literară , Vatra , Steaua , Apostrof .
Among the published works: Romanul lecturii (Romanian Book, 1976, Debut Prize of the Union of Writers), Horizon of Translation (Univers, 1981, second edition, added in 2004, ICR Publishing House),Les débuts littéraires roumains d'Eugène Ionesco . 1926-1940 (Carl Winter Verlag, Heidelberg, 1989), the latter being the abridged version of the volume Anatomia unei negatia (Minerva, 1991, the Writers' Union Prize for criticism), a volume rejected by communist censorship from 1973 until 1989. By the same author: Copacul din campie (2003) was published by Polirom Publishing House , a book awarded with the ASPRO Grand Prize in 2003 at the Bucharest International Book Fair in 2004. Also in the Egografii collection of the same publishing house, another memorial book, Corvorul cu scorpioni , in 2006. He collaborated on the volumes: Ionesco - Situations et perspectives (Belfond, 1980) andE. Ionesco, Hugoliade (Gallimard, 1982).
Children
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Domnica Ionescu (1982) |
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