“People who want to pay their last respects to the president of the Romanian Writers’ Union, acad. Nicolae Manolescu, I can do it on Monday, March 25, between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., at the Romanian Athenaeum,” the message reads.
At the same time, the Romanian Writers’ Union announces that the funeral will take place on Tuesday, March 26, from 12:30 p.m. at the Saint John Cemetery in Râmnicu Vâlcea.
“The Writers’ Union will make available to those who wish to participate two buses that will leave from the Writers’ Union headquarters on Tuesday, March 26, at 9:00 a.m.,” the quoted message reads.
“The most important Romanian critic after the Second World War”
Literary critic Nicolae Manolescu died on Saturday, March 23, at the Elias Hospital in Bucharest, the institution announced in a statement.
“With deep sorrow, the death of the academician Nicolae Manolescu (1939-2024), President of the Writers’ Union, director of the weekly “Romania literară”, critic and literary historian of great reputation, one of the greatest personalities of Romanian literature of all time” , the Union of Writers from Romania also transmitted.
“Nicolae Manolescu, the most important Romanian literary critic and historian since the Second World War, has passed away. May God rest him!”, for his part, the literary critic Mircea Mihăieş sent, in a message picked up by Agerpres.
At the same time, on his Facebook page, the journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu also announced the death: “One of the great literary critics and teachers of Romanian culture, Nicolae Manolescu, died at the age of 84, following a cardiac arrest. I will keep his memory alive.”
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