Marin Sorescu

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Marin Sorescu (1936, Bulzeşti, Dolj - 1997, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist.

Sorescu's collection of Censored Poems comprised poems could not be published until the end of the tyrannical, oppresive regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu; of these, the best known is House under surveillance.

Affiliations:

1983 - Member of Mallarmé Academy, Paris 1992 - Member of the Romanian Academy Member of the International Writing Program, Iowa, Iowa City, USA

International Awards:

Prize of the Romanian Academy, 1968, 1977 The Gold Medal for Poetry, "Napoli ospite", Italy, 1970 The Prize of the Romanian Academy for Drama, 1970 The Prize "Le Muse", granted by Accademie delle Muse, Florence, 1978 The International Poetry Prize "Fernado Riello", Madrid, Spain, 1983 The International Herder Prize, granted by the University of Vienna, 1991, for the entire work Prize of the Romanian Writers Union (awarded 6 times, for poetry, drama, literary critique)

"Marin Sorescu, a poet and former Minister of Culture, died on Dec. 8,1996 at Elias Hospital here after a heart attack. He was 60. He suffered from cirrhosis and hepatitis" (NY Times - December 16, 1996)

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