Petru Dumitriu

Background

Dumitriu was born in Baziaş. His father was a Romanian army officer and 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.

Education

After school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philosophy at Munich University with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in the Second World War.

Career

In 1960, Dumitriu fled from Romania to West Berlin, moved to Frankfurt am Main and later to Bad Godesberg, Germany, finally settling in Metz, France, with. He did not return to Romania until 1996. He had two daughters: Irene (born 1959) and Helene (born 1961).

Works

• book

  • Incognito

    (Translated from the author's French version by Norman Denny)

  • The extreme Occident

    (mustard cloth hardcover, green block on spine, gilt)

  • To the unknown God
  • Incognito: A novel

    (NY 1964 Macmillan. Translated from the French. 8vo., hard...)

  • The extreme Occident.
  • Incognito
  • Die Transmoderne: Zur Situation des Romans
  • To the unknown God by Petru Dumitriu (1982-05-03)

Membership

After becoming a member of the Romanian Writers' Union committee in 1950, he became editor-in-chief at Viaţa Românească in 1953.

Connections

Married Irene Medrea, 1955. 2 daughters.

Father:

Petre Dumitriu

Mother:

Theresia (von Debretzy) Dumitriu

Spouse:

Irene Medrea