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Tudor Arghezi

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Birth Name: Ion N. Theodorescu

Born: 21 May 1880 Died: 14 July 1967

Country of origin: Romania


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Description: Tudor Arghezi was a major Romanian writer, noted for his contribution to poetry and children's literature. He was born in Bucharest (where he also died); after a four year-long stint as an Orthodox monk at Cernica Monastery, he traveled abroad in 1905. He visited Paris and then moved to Fribourg, where he wrote poetry and attended courses at the local University; dissatisfied with the Roman Catholic focus encouraged by the latter, he moved to Geneva, where he was employed in a jeweler's workshop. In 1927 he published his first volume of collected poems, titled Cuvinte Potrivite ("Fitting Words" or "Suitable Words& ... (more)
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