Ion Minulescu

Ion Minulescu
Minulescu in 1934
Born	(1881-01-06)January 6, 1881 Bucharest
Died	April 11, 1944(1944-04-11) (aged 63) Bucharest
Pen name	I. M. Nirvan Koh-i-Noor
Occupation	poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, literary critic, journalist, civil servant
Nationality	Romanian
Period	1904–1944
Genre	lyric poetry, drama, memoir, satire
Literary movement	Symbolism Avant-garde Sburătorul

Ion Minulescu (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon minuˈlesku]; 6 January 1881 – 11 April 1944) was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, literary critic, and playwright. Often publishing his works under the pseudonyms I. M. Nirvan and Koh-i-Noor (the latter being derived from the famous diamond), he journeyed to Paris, where he was heavily influenced by the growing Symbolist movement and Parisian Bohemianism. A herald of Romania's own Symbolist movement, he had a major influence on local modernist literature, and was among the first local poets to use free verse.^[1]