Romanian literature

Historians from all over Romania and abroad attended on Wednesday a symposium called "The Greater Union - the culmination of a millenary history," organised by the National Defence College Foundation and the National Defence College at the Central University Library in Bucharest, an event that is part of the series of events dedicated to the Centennial of the December 1, 1918 Greater Union.

Paul Cornea, Matei Visniec, Gabriela Adamesteanu and Eugen Negrici are some of the winners of the 2014 prizes of the Romanian Writers' Union (USR), presented on Monday in the Auditorium of the Carol I Central University Library.

"The Forest" documentary, by Sinisa Dragin, is a film "about how art can influence politics," said journalist and film critic Cristian Tudor Popescu on Thursday evening at Studio Cinema, where the first national screening of the production took place.

The Excelsior Theatre House of Bucharest is inviting Bucharesters, May 29 - August 30, to a summer holiday with it, a project that provides outdoor stage plays, dance and music shows as well as film screenings, the theatre reports in a press release.

The three teams of students and professors with the Faculty of Engineering of the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (ULBS) have ranked fifth, the best result of Romania in the history of participations in the Robotics European Championship - EUROBOT Robomovies 2015, which took place over May 21 - 24 in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland), according to a release sent AGERPRES on Tuesday.

Poets, musicians and representatives of some of Europe's most prestigious poetry houses will convene Wednesday through Sunday in Bucharest for the Bucharest International Poetry Fair, the National Trade Fair of Poetry Books and the Poetry and Jazz Marathon, organised by the National Museum of Romanian Literature.

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A man has been injured in Sofia after a part of a baseboard of an underpass fell over him.

The incident occurred around 11.20 am Wednesday close to the Embassy of the Republic of Romania, located on ''M. Eminescu'' Boulevard in Sofia.

Mircea Cartarescu's "Poetry" tome, gathering the author's poetry works, will be launched at the Humanitas Bookshop near the Cismigiu Gardens on Tuesday.

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Romanians in Bulgaria and worldwide celebrated their day of national culture on Monday.

January 15 is the birth date of Mihai Eminescu, a poet and novelist who contributed to national revival in the age of Romanticism.

President Klaus Iohannis says in a Facebook post that the most appropriate tribute to the national poet Mihai Eminescu on the latter's 165 years of birth anniversary would be for us to read a line of the great Romanian's poetry, prose or newspaper articles.

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