Mihai Rădulescu

Mihai Rădulescu (; May 15, 1936 – January 20, 2009) was a Romanian novelist, poet, historian, and art critic.

He was born in Bucharest, the only child of Dumitru and Toni Rădulescu. After attending French schools in his native city, he enrolled in the School of English Studies, Department of Letters at the University of Bucharest. In November 1956, while he was a second year student, he was arrested for participating in a political protest, and sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment, which he spent at the Jilava and Gherla prisons and the Periprava, Salcia, and forced labor camps. In 1963, he restarted his studies, graduating from the same School of English Studies of the University of Bucharest, where he studied with Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga. He then became a high school teacher, a junior lecturer at his alma mater, and, from 1979 a lecturer in English and French at the Theological Institute in Bucharest.

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he started the publishing company "Ramida". He died in Bucharest at age 73. Provided by Wikipedia