Ștefan Augustin Doinaș

Ștefan Augustin Doinaș (Romanian pronunciation: [ʃteˈfan awɡusˈtin dojˈnaʃ]; pen name of Ștefan Popa) (April 26, 1922[1] – May 25, 2002) was a Romanian Neoclassical poet of the Communist era.

Doinas was born in Cherechiu, Bihor County. After completing high school in Arad, he studied philology in Sibiu, where the University of Cluj had moved in the wake of the Hungarian occupation of Northern Transylvania. Here he joined the Sibiu Literary Circle, a group formed around Lucian Blaga.

Doinaș published his first volume of poems, Cartea mareelor, in 1964. Some of his most famous works include: Omul cu compasul, Seminția lui Laokoon, Anotimpul discret, Interiorul unui poem and Lamentații. In 1992, he became a member of the Romanian Academy, and in 2002, honorary president of the Writers' Union of Romania.

Doinaș died of throat cancer in Bucharest. That night, his wife Silvia Lia Popa, a former first ballerina whom he had married in 1958, committed suicide.

Presence in English Language Anthologies
  • Born in Utopia - An anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry - Carmen Firan and Paul Doru Mugur (editors) with Edward Foster - Talisman House Publishers - 2006 - ISBN 1-58498-050-8
  • Testament – Anthology of Modern Romanian Verse / Testament - Antologie de Poezie Română Modernă – Bilingual edition English & Romanian – Daniel Ioniță (editor and translator) with Eva Foster, Daniel Reynaud and Rochelle Bews – Minerva Publishing 2012 and 2015 (second edition) - ISBN 978-973-21-1006-5
  • Testament - Anthology of Romanian Verse - American Edition - monolingual English language edition - Daniel Ioniță (editor and principal translator) with Eva Foster, Daniel Reynaud and Rochelle Bews - Australian-Romanian Academy for Culture - 2017 - ISBN 978-0-9953502-0-5

References
  1. Roy MacGregor-Hastie (June 1969). Anthology of contemporary Romanian poetry. Owen. p. 128. Retrieved 2013-08-04.


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