Petru dumitriu biography sample

Petru Dumitriu (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈpetrudumiˈtri.u]; 8 May &#; 6 April ) was a Romanian-born novelist who wrote both in Romanian and in French.

Petru dumitriu biography sample

Biography

Dumitriu was born in Baziaș, in the Banat region of Romania. 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.

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

After becoming a member of the Romanian Writers' Union committee in , he became editor-in-chief at Viața Românească in ^[1]

In , Dumitriu fled from Romania to West Berlin, moved to Frankfurt am Main and later to Bad Godesberg, Germany, and finally settling in Metz, France.^[2] He did not return to Romania until

He was married twice: