Nicolae Labiş (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e laˈbiʃ]) (December 2, 1935, Poiana Mărului, Suceava County, Romania – December 22, 1956, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet.
His father, Eugen, was the son of a forest brigade soldier and himself fought in World War II; he became a schoolteacher in 1931. His mother Ana-Profira, the daughter of a peasant killed in the Battle of Mărăşeşti, was also a schoolteacher. He had two sisters, Margareta and Dori...
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Nicolae Labiş (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e laˈbiʃ]) (December 2, 1935, Poiana Mărului, Suceava County, Romania – December 22, 1956, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet.
His father, Eugen, was the son of a forest brigade soldier and himself fought in World War II; he became a schoolteacher in 1931. His mother Ana-Profira, the daughter of a peasant killed in the Battle of Mărăşeşti, was also a schoolteacher. He had two sisters, Margareta and Dorina. He grew up surrounded by mountains and forests.
Labiş learned to read around age five from his mother's pupils. He also liked to draw as a child. He entered primary school in his native village (in his mother's class), then as a war refugee took third grade in Văcarea, Argeş, receiving top marks. Classmates of his later recalled that he would write poems and little plays and liked to declaim in public in this period. The family moved back to a village neighbouring his native one in May 1945.
From 1946 to 1951, Labiş attended the Nicu Gane...
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