Monica Lovinescu
Monica Lovinescu (born November 19, 1923 in Bucharest , † April 20, 2008 in Paris ) was a Romanian writer , journalist and literary critic who was a radio presenter for Radio Free Europe from 1964 to 1992 during the communist dictatorship in Romania became the symbolic figures of the resistance against the regime.
Life
Lovinescu was born in Bucharest in 1923 as the daughter of literary historian Eugen Lovinescu and teacher Ecaterina Bălăcioiu-Lovinescu . She graduated from the University of Bucharest and made her literary debut in Vremea magazine . In her early years, Lovinescu regularly published prose in the monthly magazine Revista Fundațiilor shelves and theater chronicles in the magazine Democraţia .
The rapid establishment of a communist government in autumn 1947 moved Lovinescu to arrange a stay abroad in France with the help of a grant from the French government . After the Socialist Republic of Romania was proclaimed in December 1947, she applied for political asylum in France in August 1948 . In the following years she published writings there on communism in her home country, her articles were frequently in the magazines Kontinent , Les Cahiers de l'Est and L'Alternative .
Between 1951 and 1974 Lovinescu wrote contributions for the broadcasts of the radio station Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française in Romanian and was an employee in the Eastern Europe department of the station. From 1964 she worked as a journalist for Radio Free Europe and designed two programs per week about events in the western world that contributed to the build-up of internal resistance against the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu .
Her work in France earned her sharp criticism from the regime-loyal press in Romania, including Corneliu Vadim Tudor . In 1977 she was beaten up by three PLO agents in Paris on behalf of Ceaușescu and was then in a coma for a short time , but returned to her work as a radio presenter and also accompanied the Romanian Revolution of 1989 from France .
Lovinescu died in Paris in 2008.
Private
Lovinescu was married to Virgil Ierunca , who was also a literary critic.
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- ↑ Vladimir Tismăneanu : Commentary: Why Does Monica Lovinescu Matter? , Article on Radio Free Europe.org of April 24, 2008, accessed May 31, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lovinescu, Monica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 2008 |
| Place of death | Paris |