. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Dan De\u0219liu"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "47490048"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1101669631"^^ . . "6328"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "Dan De\u0219liu (August 31, 1927 \u2013 September 4, 1992) was a Romanian poet. Born in Bucharest, his parents were \u0218tefan De\u0219liu, an accountant at the Bulandra Theatre company and later administrator of the Workers' Theatre, and his wife Elena (n\u00E9e S\u0103ndulescu). He began secondary school at Matei Basarab Lyceum in his native city, followed by the Media\u0219 aeronautics school and the Bucharest industrial and building high school. He then attended the Dramatic Arts Conservatory under Maria Filotti. From 1946 to 1948, he appeared as an actor at Petro\u0219ani and Bucharest, also working as an editor for Flac\u0103ra magazine. He was later an editor at Sc\u00EEnteia and, between 1961 and 1962, was editor-in-chief at Luceaf\u0103rul. His first published work was the sonnet \"Paseri\", which appeared in George C\u0103linescu's Lumea i"@en . . . . . . . . . "Dan De\u0219liu (August 31, 1927 \u2013 September 4, 1992) was a Romanian poet. Born in Bucharest, his parents were \u0218tefan De\u0219liu, an accountant at the Bulandra Theatre company and later administrator of the Workers' Theatre, and his wife Elena (n\u00E9e S\u0103ndulescu). He began secondary school at Matei Basarab Lyceum in his native city, followed by the Media\u0219 aeronautics school and the Bucharest industrial and building high school. He then attended the Dramatic Arts Conservatory under Maria Filotti. From 1946 to 1948, he appeared as an actor at Petro\u0219ani and Bucharest, also working as an editor for Flac\u0103ra magazine. He was later an editor at Sc\u00EEnteia and, between 1961 and 1962, was editor-in-chief at Luceaf\u0103rul. His first published work was the sonnet \"Paseri\", which appeared in George C\u0103linescu's Lumea in 1945; his first book was the 1949 Goarnele inimii. He won the State Prize in 1949, 1950 and 1951, and in 1974 was awarded the Romanian Writers' Union Prize for his book Cetatea de pe aer. In 1978, he took the same prize for Un haiduc pe biciclet\u0103. Together with , he composed the lyrics for \"Te sl\u0103vim, Rom\u00E2nie\", which served as Romania's national anthem from 1953 to 1975. During the 1940s and 1950s, he quickly came to the literary forefront as a representative poet of his era, much lauded for his militant socialist realist poetry that enthusiastically chronicled the events of the day. This was embodied by his first book as well as the ones that followed across the next decade: Laz\u0103r de la Rusca (1949), Minerii din Maramure\u0219 (1951), C\u00E2ntec de ruin\u0103 (1957), and Ceva mai greu (1958). Afterwards, he attempted a shift toward a skeptically elegiac, obsessive lyricism that dealt with regret and lack of fulfillment (Cercuri de copac, 1962; Drumul spre Dikson, 1969; Cetatea de pe aer, 1974). Starting in 1962 and particularly from 1970, he began to criticize the policies of the Communist Party, and as a result was placed under thorough surveillance by the Securitate secret police. In the 1980s, he turned toward open dissidence, repudiating his \"revolutionary\" past, quitting the party in 1980 and directly criticizing dictator Nicolae Ceau\u0219escu, whom he accused of behaving as if he were \"the owner of Romania\". In March 1989, he sent an open letter to Radio Free Europe decrying the domestic situation in his country, prompting his placement under house arrest. During the Romanian Revolution that December, he was named a member of the National Salvation Front Council. An excellent swimmer, De\u0219liu drowned at Neptun nearly three years after the Revolution; it is unknown whether his death was accidental or deliberate. After a thorough search covering the 20 km (12 mi) between Costine\u0219ti and Vama Veche, his intact body was found after eight days beside the dock of Ceau\u0219escu's former villa in Neptun. A diary of his, likely written in 1990\u20131991, appeared in 2001. A street in 23 August, Constan\u021Ba County bears his name, and he is buried at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest."@en . . . . . . . . .