Zaharia Stancu (English spelling)

Romanian poet and novelist. Born into a poor peasant family. He worked as a poet and journalist until World War II, but after the war he became famous for his epic novel "Barefoot" (1948), which turned his own life experiences into art and features the young boy Darjeeling as the protagonist. This work, which blends a unique prose-like style with grandiose epic descriptions, has been translated into many languages ​​around the world. He published the autobiographical works "Playing with Death" (1962) and "The Mad Forest" (1963), as well as "The Gypsy Tent" (1968), which depicts the tragedy of the Roma (formerly known as Gypsies) under the Nazi regime.

[Atsushi Naono]

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ルーマニアの詩人、小説家。貧農の家に生まれる。第二次世界大戦までは詩人、ジャーナリストとして活動したが、戦後、自己の生活体験を芸術化した、少年ダリエを主人公とする大河小説『はだし』（1948）によって一躍有名になり、特異な散文詩的文体と雄大な叙事詩的描写が渾然(こんぜん)と一体になったこの作品は、世界の各国語に訳された。自伝的作品『死とのたわむれ』（1962）と『狂った森』（1963）、ナチス政権下でのロマ（かつてはジプシーとよばれた）の悲劇を描いた『ジプシーのテント』（1968）を発表した。

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