Petru Dumitriu
| Petru Dumitriu | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 8, 1924 Baziaş |
| Died | April 6, 2002 |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Period | 1943-2002 |
Petru Dumitriu (8 May 1924 – 6 April 2002) was a Romanian novelist.
Biography
Dumitriu was born in Baziaş. His father was a Romanian army officer but 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 philopsophy at Munich University with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in the Second World War.
In 1960 Dumitriu fled from Romania to Germany and France, where he lived at Metz. He did not return to Romania until 1996.
Works
Partial list of publications:
- Bijuterii de familie, ESPLA, 1949; English translation by Edward Hyams, Family Jewels, Collins, 1961
- Drum fără pulbere (Road without dust), ESPLA, 1951
- Cronică de la câmpie (Chronicle of the plain), ESPLA, 1955
- Pasărea furtunii (Storm Bird), ESPLA, 1957
- Cronica de familie (Family Chronicle), ESPLA, 1957 (chapter filmed as An Unforgettable Summer)
- Incognito, Seuil, 1962; English translation by Norman Denny, Collins, 1964
- L'Extreme Occident (The Far West), Seuil, 1964
- Le sourire sarde (The Sardinian Smile), Seuil, 1967
- L'homme aux yeux gris (The man with grey eyes), Seuil, 1968
- Rendez-vous au jugement dernier, Seuil, 1961; English translation by Richard Howard, Meeting at the last judgment, Pantheon, 1962
- Au dieu inconnu. Confessio (To the unknown god. Confession), Seuil, 1979
(ESPLA: Editura de Stat pentru Literatură si Arta, [Romanian] State Publishing House for Literature and Art, Bucharest)