Tiberiu Iliescu

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Tiberiu Iliescu (21 December 1906 – 12 April 1978) was a Romanian writer, editor and teacher, intimately associated with the city of Craiova and the wider Oltenia region. He was born there into an artisan's family, and published his first literary contribution while still a student at Carol I High School. He studied at the University of Bucharest, during which time he became involved with literary modernism, coming under Tudor Arghezi's influence. Iliescu then worked at various provincial schools, returning to Craiova to teach at Frații Buzești. Alongside Constantin Nissipeanu and Mihnea Gheorghiu, he helped create an Oltenian avant-garde cell, which, from 1934, put out Meridian magazine. It acquired a national notoriety, attracting established modernists, or up-and-coming talents, from across the Kingdom of Romania. In the late interwar, Iliescu was especially known for his prose poetry, which merged with literary and social criticism, with biography, or with surrealistic elements. Meridian...

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