Ion Minulescu

Ion Minulescu was a Romanian avantgarde poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, literary critic, and playwright. Often publishing his works under the pseudonyms I. M. Nirvan and KohiNoor , he journeyed to Paris, where he was heavily influenced by the growing Symbolist movement and Parisian Bohemianism. A herald of Romanias own Symbolist movement, he had a major influence on local modernist literature, and was among the first local poets to use free verse.

Born in Bucharest to the widow Alexandrina Ciuc , he was the posthumous child of Tudor Minulescu . Originally, Minulescu was meant to be born in Slatina, but bad weather prevented his mother from leaving the capital city. Adopted by Ion Constantinescu, a Romanian Army officer who married Alexandrina Ciuc, he lived much of his childhood in Slatina and completed his primary and most of his medium studies in Piteti at Ion Brtianu High School. He was a colleague of Al. Gherghel, who would also become known as a Symbolist writer the two edited the school magazine Luceafrul, which only published a few issues before being closed down by the headmaster.

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