Petru Dumitriu ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpetru dumiˈtri.u] ; 8 May 1924 – 6 April 2002) was a Romanian -born novelist who wrote both in Romanian and in French.
6-705: Dumitriu was born in Baziaș , in the Banat region of Romania. His father was a Romanian army officer and his mother was Hungarian and spoke to her husband and son mostly in French, so that French was Petru Dumitriu's second language from childhood. After school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philosophy at the University of Munich with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in
12-412: A French-born Romanian writer 24 years his senior, in 1956 (they divorced after about one week), and the same year with Irina Medrea (divorced in 1988). He had two daughters: Irene (born 1959) and Helene (born 1961) Partial list of publications: (ESPLA: Editura de Stat pentru Literatură si Arta , [Romanian] State Publishing House for Literature and Art, Bucharest) This Romanian biographical article
18-645: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Socol Socol ( Romanian : Socol , Serbian : Соколовац / Sokolovac , Hungarian : Nérasolymos ) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County , Romania (in the Clisura Dunării area of Banat ). It is composed of five villages: Baziaș (Базјаш, Báziás ), Câmpia (Луговет, Néramező ), Pârneaura (Прњавор), Socol, and Zlatița (Златица, Néraaranyos ). Sokol means "falcon" in Serbian. The commune
24-483: Is a village of Socol commune, notable as the place where the Danube enters Romania, and where, in 1854, the first railway line was opened on the territory of present-day Romania—the line ran from Baziaș to Oravița , at a time when the area was under Austrian administration. The village has a significant Serbian heritage, being the site of Baziaș Monastery , said to have been founded in 1225 by Saint Sava while on
30-460: Is officially bilingual, with both Romanian and Serbian being used as working languages on public signage and in administration, education, and justice. At the 2011 census , the population of the commune numbered 1,933 people and included 52.9% Serbs , 36.8% Romanians , 5.6% Roma , 3.7% Czechs , and 0.6% Hungarians . At the 2021 census , Socol had a population of 1,602; of those, 49.13% were Romanians, 38.39% Serbs, and 2.75% Czechs. Baziaș
36-600: The Second World War . After becoming a member of the Romanian Writers' Union committee in 1950, he became editor-in-chief at Viața Românească in 1953. In 1960, Dumitriu fled from Romania to West Berlin , moved to Frankfurt am Main and later to Bad Godesberg , Germany, and finally settling in Metz , France. He did not return to Romania until 1996. He was married twice: with Henriette Yvonne Stahl ,
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