Nichita Stănescu
Golden Wreath Struga Poetry Evenings, 1982
Nichita Stănescu (Romanian pronunciation: [niˈkita stəˈnesku]; born Nichita Hristea Stănescu; 31 March 1933 – 13 December 1983) was a Romanian poet and essayist.
Biography
Stănescu's father was Nicolae Hristea Stănescu (1908–1982). His mother, Tatiana Cereaciuchin, was Russian (originally from Voronezh, she had fled Russia and married in 1931). Nichita Stănescu graduated from the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Ploiești, then went on to study Romanian language and literature at the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1957. He made his literary debut in the Tribuna literary magazine.
Stănescu married Magdalena Petrescu in 1952, but the couple separated a year later. In 1962 he married Doina Ciurea. In 1982 he married Todorița "Dora" Tărâță.
For much of his career, Stănescu was a contributor to and editor of Gazeta Literară, România Literară, and Luceafărul.
His editorial debut was the poetry book Sensul iubirii ("The Aim of Love"), which appeared under the Luceafărul selection, in 1960. He also was the recipient of numerous awards for his verse, the most important being the Herder Prize in 1975 and a nomination for the Nobel Prize in 1980. The last volume of poetry published in his lifetime was Noduri și semne ("Knots and Signs"), published in 1982. A heavy drinker, he died of cardiopulmonary arrest.[1] He is buried in Bucharest's Bellu Cemetery.
Awards
- The Romanian Writers' Union Award (1964, 1969, 1972, 1975)
- Herder Prize (1975)
- Romanian Academy's “Mihai Eminescu” Award (1975)
- Golden Wreath laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings (1982)
- Elected post-mortem member of the Romanian Academy
Legacy
There is a national poetry festival and an award named Stănescu in his honor.[2]
There are high schools named after him in Ploiești[3] and in Sector 3 of Bucharest.[4] Streets in Blejoi, Cluj-Napoca, Dej, Mogoșoaia, Pipera (Voluntari), Ploiești, and Vama Veche are named in his honor.
Volumes
- 1960 – Sensul iubirii ("The Meaning of Love")
- 1964 – O viziune a sentimentelor [ro] ("A Vision of Feelings")
- 1965 – Dreptul la timp [ro] ("The Right to Time")
- 1966 – 11 elegii [ro] ("11 Elegies")
- 1967 –
- Roșu vertical [ro] ("Vertical Red"),
- Alfa [ro],
- Oul și sfera [ro] ("The Egg and the Sphere")
- 1968 – Laus Ptolemaei [ro]
- 1969 –
- Necuvintele [ro] ("The Unwords"),
- Un pământ numit România [ro] ("A Land Called Romania")
- 1970 – În dulcele stil classic [ro] ("In Sweet Classical Style")
- 1972 –
- Cartea de recitire [ro] ("The Re-reading Book")
- Belgradul în cinci prieteni [ro] ("Five Friends in Belgrade")
- Măreția frigului [ro] ("The Greatness of Cold")
- 1978 – Epica Magna [ro]
- 1979 – Operele imperfecte [ro] ("Imperfect Works")
- 1980 – Carte de citire, carte de iubire ("Book for Reading, Book for Loving")
- 1982 – Oase plângând [ro] ("Crying Bones")
- 1982 – Noduri și semne [ro] ("Knots and Marks")
- 1982 – Respirări ("Breaths")
Posthumous volumes
- 1984 – Album memorial ("Memorial Album")
- 1985 – Antimetafizica [ro], Nichita Stănescu însoțit de Aurelian Titu Dumitrescu ("Antimetaphysics, Nichita Stănescu accompanied by Aurelian Titu Dumitrescu")
- 1985 – Nichita Stănescu – Frumos ca umbra unei idei ("Nichita Stănescu – Beautiful as the Shadow of an Idea")
- 1993 – Cântece la drumul mare, 1955–1960 ("Songs on the Open Road, 1955–1960")
- 1993 – Tânjiri spre firesc ("Longings toward the Usual")
- 1995 – Cărțile sibiline ("The Sibylline Books")
- 1998 – Fel de scriere ("A Kind of Writing")
- Noua frontieră a sufletului uman ("The New Frontier of the Human Spirit")
- Scrisori ("Letters")
Presence in English Language Anthologies
- Testament - 400 Years of Romanian Poetry - 400 de ani de poezie românească - bilingual edition - Daniel Ioniță (editor and principal translator) with Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul & Eva Foster - Editura Minerva, 2019 - ISBN 978-973-21-1070-6\
- Romanian Poetry from its Origins to the Present - bilingual edition English/Romanian - Daniel Ioniță (editor and principal translator) with Daniel Reynaud, Adriana Paul and Eva Foster - Australian-Romanian Academy Publishing - 2020 - ISBN 978-0-9953502-8-1 ; OCLC 1288167046
Further reading
- Eugen Simion, Scriitori români de azi, vol. I, Bucharest, Editura Cartea Românească, 1978
- Ion Pop, Nichita Stănescu – spațiul și măștile poeziei, Bucharest, Editura Albatros, 1980
- Alex. Ștefănescu, Introducere în opera lui Nichita Stănescu, Bucharest, Editura Minerva, 1986
- Daniel Dimitriu, Nichita Stănescu – geneza poemului, Iași, Editura Universității Al. Ioan Cuza, 1997
- Doina Uricariu, Nichita Stănescu – lirismul paradoxal, Bucharest, Editura Du Style, 1998
- Corin Braga, Nichita Stănescu – orizontul imaginar, Cluj, Editura Dacia, 2002
- Mircea Bârsilă, Introducere în poetica lui Nichita Stănescu, Pitești, Editura Paralela 45, 2006
References
- ^ "Scriitorii și alcoolul. Nichita Stănescu bea două sticle de vodcă pe zi, Marin Preda a murit după o beție cruntă". Adevărul (in Romanian). 19 June 2011.
- ^ "Marele premiu "Nichita Stănescu" a fost câștigat de un poet maramureșean". www.realitatea.net (in Romanian). 31 March 2008. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ^ "Colegiul Național "Nichita Stănescu" Municipiul Ploiești". colegiul-nichita.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Liceul Theoretic Național "Nichita Stănescu" București sector 3". www.liceulnichitastanescu.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 30 March 2024.
External links
- (in English) Romanian Poetry – Nichita Stănescu
- (in Romanian) Romanian Poetry – Nichita Stănescu
- (in Romanian) Collection of Nichita Stănescu's works
- (in Romanian) Nichita Stănescu Foundation
- (in Romanian) Mircea Gociman about Nichita
- Persian translation in Persian anthology of world poetry
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- 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin
- Jan Kott
- Stanisław Lorentz
- Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
- 1965: Tudor Arghezi
- Manolis Hatzidakis
- Emanuel Hruška
- Zoltán Kodály
- László Németh
- Hugo Rokyta
- Hristo Vakarelski
- 1966: Ján Cikker
- Dezső Dercsényi
- Zlatko Gorjan
- Aleksander Kobzdej
- Anton Kriesis
- Niko Kuret
- Dimiter Statkov
- 1967: Iván Fenyő
- Vladimír Kompánek
- Witold Lutosławski
- Spyridon Marinatos
- Alexandru A. Philippide
- Mihai Pop
- Svetozar Radojčić
- 1968: Constantin Daicoviciu
- Roman Ingarden
- Miroslav Krleža
- Ludvík Kunz
- Anastasios Orlandos
- Lajos Vayer
- Pancho Vladigerov
- 1969: Jolán Balogh
- Albín Brunovský
- Bohuslav Fuchs
- Mihail Jora
- Marijan Matković
- Ksawery Piwocki
- France Stele
- 1970: Jan Białostocki
- Jan Filip
- Zoltán Franyó
- Milovan Gavazzi
- Gyula Illyés
- Yiannis Papaioannou
- Zeko Torbov
- 1971: Jiří Kolář
- Blaže Koneski
- Georgios Megas
- Kazimierz Michałowski
- Mihail Sokolovski
- Zaharia Stancu
- Bence Szabolcsi
- 1972: Dragotin Cvetko
- Atanas Dalchev
- Branko Maksimović
- Gyula Ortutay
- Jaroslav Pešina
- Henryk Stażewski
- Virgil Vătășianu
- 1973: Veselin Beshevliev
- Stylianos Harkianakis
- János Harmatta
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Eugen Jebeleanu
- Petar Lubarda
- Jan Racek
- 1974: Władysław Czerny
- Ivan Duichev
- Ivo Frangeš
- László Gerő
- Stylianos Pelekanidis
- Ján Podolák
- Zeno Vancea
- 1975: Józef Burszta
- Hristo M. Danov
- Stanislav Libenský
- Maria Ana Musicescu
- Gábor Preisich
- Pandelis Prevelakis
- Stanojlo Rajičić
- 1976: Jagoda Buić
- Marin Goleminov
- Ioannis Kakridis
- Dezső Keresztury
- Nichita Stănescu
- Rudolf Turek
- Kazimierz Wejchert
- 1977: Nikolaos Andriotis
- Riko Debenjak
- Emmanuel Kriaras
- Albert Kutal
- Máté Major
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Anastas Petrov
- Ion Vladutiu
- 1978: Eugen Barbu
- Đurđe Bošković
- Kazimierz Dejmek
- Stoyan Dzudzev
- Béla Gunda
- Jiří Hrůza
- Yiannis Spyropoulos
- 1979: Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Ferenc Farkas
- Zdenko Kolacio
- Atanas Natev
- András Sütő
- Pavel Trost
- Apostolos E. Vacalopoulos
- 1980: Gordana Babić-Đorđević
- Iván Balassa
- Kamil Lhoták
- Manousos Manousakas
- Vera Mutafchieva
- Alexandru Rosetti
- Wiktor Zin
- 1981: Emil Condurachi
- Sándor Csoóri
- Stefka Georgieva
- Dimitrios Loukatos
- Vjenceslav Richter
- Eugen Suchoň
- Elida Maria Szarota
- 1982: Athanasios Aravantinos
- Ana Blandiana
- Vojislav J. Đurić
- Sona Kovacevicová
- Aleksandar Nichev
- Jan Józef Szczepański
- Imre Varga
- 1983: Władysław Bartoszewski
- Géza Entz
- Jozef Jankovič
- Gunther Schuller
- Zdenko Škreb
- Stefana Stoykova
- C. A. Trypanis
- 1984: Emilijan Cevc
- Konstantinos Dimaras
- Karel Horálek
- György Konrád
- Constantin Lucaci
- Krasimir Manchev
- Krzysztof Meyer
- 1985: Branko Fučić
- Růžena Grebeníčková
- Adrian Marino
- Demetrios Pallas
- Károly Perczel
- Simeon Pironkov
- Andrzej Wajda
- 1986: Georgi Baev
- Tekla Dömötör
- Boris Gaberščik
- Konrad Górski
- Johannes Karayannopoulos
- Jiří Kotalík
- Anatol Vieru
- 1987: Roman Brandstaetter
- Doula Mouriki
- József Ujfalussy
- Vladimir Veličković
- Velizar Velkov
- Gheorghe Vrabie
- 1988: Roman Berger
- Christos Kapralos
- Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga
- György Györffy
- Donka Petkanova
- Mieczysław Porębski
- Edvard Ravnikar
- 1989: Maria Banuș
- Ákos Birkás
- Jerzy Buszkiewicz
- Václav Frolec
- Nikolai Genchev
- Petar Miljković-Pepek
- Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis
- 1990: Liviu Calin
- Bronisław Geremek
- Aris Konstantinidis
- Dejan Medaković
- Virginia Paskaleva
- Adriena Šimotová
- András Vizkelety
- 1991: Maja Bošković-Stulli
- Gerard Labuda
- Andor Pigler
- Yorgos Sicilianos
- Emil Skála
- Marin Sorescu
- Stoimen Stoilov
- 1992: Manolis Andronikos
- Jenő Barabás
- Blaga Dimitrova
- Stefan Kaszynski
- Jiří Kořalka
- Zmaga Kumer
- Jon Nicodim
- 1993: Vasilka Gerasimova-Tomova
- Petro Kononenko
- György Kurtág
- Jerzy Tchórzewski
- Răzvan Theodorescu
- Elena Várossová
- Māra Zālīte
- Dionysis Zivas
- Viktor Žmegač
- 1994: István Borzsák
- Dževad Juzbašić
- Ștefan Niculescu
- Andrzej Szczypiorski
- Jitka and Květa Válová
- Takis Varvitsiotis
- Zigmas Zinkevičius
- 1995: Sándor Kányádi
- Mirko Kovač
- Milcho Lalkov
- Michael G. Meraklis
- Mindaugas Navakas
- Wisława Szymborska
- Jaan Undusk
- 1996: Tamás Hofer
- Karel Hubáček
- Konstantin Iliev
- Marin Mincu
- Jože Pogačnik
- Pēteris Vasks
- Marian Zgórniak
- 1997: Tasos Athanasiadis
- Bogdan Bogdanović
- Oskár Elschek
- Ferenc Glatz
- Lech Kalinowski
- Jaan Kross
- Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin
- 1998: Imre Bak
- Andrei Corbea-Hoișie
- Eliška Fučíková
- Ismail Kadare
- Justinas Marcinkevičius
- Dorota Simonides
- Elena Toncheva
- 1999: Svetlana Alexievich
- Vera Bitrakova-Grozdanova
- Mircea Dinescu
- István Fried
- Henryk Górecki
- Dževad Karahasan
- Ferdinand Milučký
- 2000: Ján Bakoš
- Ivan Čolović
- Nikola Georgiev
- Imre Kertész
- Milan Kundera
- Karolos Mitsakis
- Arvo Pärt
- 2001: Yurii Andrukhovych
- Janez Bernik
- János Böhönyey
- Maria Kłańska
- Marek Kopelent
- Andrej Mitrović
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos
- 2002: George Demetrius Bambiniotis
- Māris Čaklais
- Péter Esterházy
- Radost Ivanova
- Nedjeljko Fabrio
- Aurel Stroe
- Lech Trzeciakowski
- 2003: Vasil Gyuzelev
- Drago Jančar
- Károly Manherz
- Stanisław Mossakowski
- Ales Rasanau
- Ludvík Václavek
- Ana Maria Zahariade
- 2004: Theodore Antoniou
- Michał Głowiński
- Dušan Kováč
- Fatos Lubonja
- Éva Pócs
- Kazimir Popkonstantinov
- Romualdas Požerskis
- 2005: Károly Klimó
- Hanna Krall
- Primož Kuret
- Jiří Kuthan
- Andrei Marga
- Eimuntas Nekrošius
- Krešimir Nemec
- 2006: Włodzimierz Borodziej
- Nicos Hadjinicolaou
- Gabriela Kiliánová
- Ene Mihkelson
- Vojteh Ravnikar