Ion Vinea
Ion Vinea (born Ioan Eugen Iovanache; April 17, 1895–July 6, 1964) was a Romanian poet, prose writer and translator.
Born in Giurgiu to Alexandru Iovanache, a landowner, and Olimpia (née Vlahopol), he studied at the Sfânta Vineri Institute and the Saint Sava National College in Bucharest between 1910 and 1914. Between 1916 and 1919, during World War I, he served in the Romanian Army at Iași. He graduated from the law faculty of the University of Bucharest in 1924. He represented Roman in the Chamber of Deputies from 1928 to 1932, and headed the union of professional newspapermen from 1938 to 1944.[1]
In 1912, together with Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, he founded Simbolul magazine; he made his debut there with original poems. From 1913, he contributed to Noua revistă română, and later to Rampa, Facla and Seara. Together with Tzara, he edited Chemarea magazine in 1915. He was an editor for Deșteptarea economică și socială, Omul liber and Adevărul. He founded and headed Contimporanul (1922-1932), a key publication of the Romanian avant-garde, and followed N. D. Cocea to become director of Facla newspaper. Other newspapers to which he contributed assiduously were Evenimentul Zilei, Gândirea and Adevărul literar și artistic. His first prose volumes were Descântecul și Flori de lampă (1925) and Paradisul suspinelor (1930). The poems he published in periodicals appeared in book form around the time of his death as Ora fântânilor (1964) and Lunatecii (1965). The unfinished Venin de mai appeared in 1971, and Publicistica literară, containing part of his literary criticism, followed in 1977. He translated works by William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe into Romanian.[1]