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Miron Radu Paraschivescu (; 2 October 1911 – 17 February 1971) was a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and translator.
Born in Zimnicea, Teleorman County, he went to high school in Ploiești, after which he studied fine arts, first in Cluj and later in Bucharest, without graduating. He then enrolled at the Letters and Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest.
A leftist in his youth (he joined the Union of Communist Youth in 1933), he wrote for many leftist papers and magazines of those days: "Cuvîntul liber", "Azi", "Facla", "Viața românească", "Era nouă", "Lumea românească", "Timpul", "Ecoul", "România Liberă", "Scînteia", sometimes under a pen name, among them Emil Soare and Paul Scorțeanu. After World War II, he wrote many propagandistic articles, although it seems that he never became a member of the Communist Party itself.
Being on friendly terms with many communist leaders from their days in the underground, including Miron Constantinescu, Constanța Crăciun, Iosif Chișinevschi, Leonte Răutu, he was considered "invulnerable", and got away with criticizing the regime, mostly in private, when anybody else would have ended in prison for the same offence. Although he hoped, due to his antifascist past, to be given important government positions like his former comrades, he never got any, being sent instead to work for several magazines and papers.
He and Sorin Toma bitterly criticized Tudor Arghezi in 1948, accusing the latter of being a representative of "decadent, bourgeois art".
In 1965, Paraschivescu took charge of the readers' column at the literary magazine Ramuri in Craiova, changing it in May 1966 into a four-page literary supplement called Povesta vorbei ("The Tale of Talk"). It lasted only six numbers. He transformed it into a meeting place for a number of young avant-garde writers who had difficulty getting published by the established literary press. Among them were Leonid Dimov, Virgil Mazilescu, and Dumitru Țepeneag.
Known for being sometimes a "difficult person" and a "big mouth", Paraschivescu was hospitalized at least twice in mental institutions.
Somewhat of a Don Juan, Paraschivescu was married five times.
Writings Oameni și așezări din Țara Moților și a Basarabilor, Craiova, 1938 Cântice țigănești, București, 1941; illustrated by Marcel Chirnoagă, București, 1972 Pâine, pământ și țărani, Craiova, 1943 Cântare României, București, 1951 Laude, București, 1953 Laude şi alte poeme, București, 1959 Declarația patetică, București, 1960 Poezii, București, 1961 Declaraţia patetică. Cântice țigănești. Laude și alte poeme, București, 1963 Bâlci la Râureni, București, 1964 Versul liber, București, 1965 Drumuri şi răspântii, București, 1967 Tristele, București, 1968 Scrieri, vol. I-II, București, 1969, vol. III-IV, București, 1974–1975 Poeme, București, 1971 Ultimele, București, 1971 Poezii, edited and afterword by Ioan Adam, București, 1973 Amintiri, București, 1975 Journal d'un heretique, translated by Claude Jaillet, foreword by de Virgil Ierunca, Paris, 1976; edition (Jurnalul unui cobai. 1940–1954), edited by Maria Cordoneanu, foreword by Vasile Igna, Cluj Napoca, 1994 Povestind copiilor, București, 1990 Jurnalul unui cobai, 1994 Poeme, Iaşi, 2000
Translations Marie-Anne Desmarest, Torente, București, 1943 Konstantin Simonov, Apărarea Moscovei, București, 1944 Nikolai Tikhonov, Istorisiri din Leningrad, București, 1944 Mikhail Sholokhov, Şcoala urii, București, 1944 Jean Richard Bloch, Toulon, București, 1945 Alexander Pushkin, Basme..., illustrated by Th. Kiriacoff-Suruceanu, București, 1945, Ruslan și Ludmila, București, 1951 Translations of eight European poets, illustrated by Mircea Alitanti, București, 1946 Claude Roy, Parisul răsculat, București, 1946 Maxim Gorki, Univesităţile mele, București, 1948 Nikolay Nekrasov, Poeme alese, București, 1953, Gerul, moşu cu nasu roşu, București, 1955, Opere alese, I-III, București, 1955–1959, Femeile ruse. Decembristele, București, 1956 Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz sau Ultima încălcare de pământ în Lituania, foreword by Olga Zaicik, București, 1956, Poezii, București, 1957 (with Vlaicu Bârna şi Virgil Teodorescu), Poezii, București 1959 Juliusz Słowacki, Ceasul meditării, illustrated by Mihu Vulcănescu, București, 1962 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Poezii, București, 1963 (with Alexandru Balaci) Andre Malraux, Calea regală, București, 1971
Awards The Romanian Academy's "George Coșbuc" Award (1956) Honorary citizen of Vălenii de Munte (post-mortem, 2011)
References Aurel Sasu, Dicționar biografic al literaturii române (M-Z), Paralela 45, Pitești, 2006, pp. 300–301