Virgil Ierunca (Romanian pronunciation:[virˈd͡ʒiljeˈruŋka]; born Virgil Untaru[unˈtaru]; August 16, 1920, Lădești, Vâlcea County – September 28, 2006, Paris) was a Romanian literary critic, journalist, and poet. He was married to Monica Lovinescu.
Both Ierunca and Lovinescu worked for several decades for Radio Free Europe.
In 2006 both were members of the Romanian Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania; the Commission's chairman, Vladimir Tismăneanu, called them "the most honest and dignified couple in the history of Romanian culture".
In December 2023, a monumental ensemble featuring statues of Ierunca and Lovinescu united by a stainless steel mantle, next to a tree of evil (a parable of the Securitate agents that had infiltrated Radio Free Europe) was inaugurated in the Cotroceni neighborhood of Bucharest.[1]
^Mihai, Alina (December 17, 2023). "Statuile Monicăi Lovinescu și Virgil Ierunca, unite printr-o mantie de inox, alături de un arbore al răului, o parabolă a securiștilor infiltrați la Europa Liberă. Monument de artă contemporană, inaugurat în Cotroceni". G4 Media (in Romanian). Retrieved December 21, 2023.
VirgilIerunca (Romanian pronunciation: [virˈd͡ʒil jeˈruŋka]; born Virgil Untaru [unˈtaru]; August 16, 1920, Lădești, Vâlcea County – September 28, 2006...
literary figure Eugen Lovinescu. She was married to the literary critic VirgilIerunca. Lovinescu was born in Bucharest. A graduate of the University of Bucharest's...
fellow Romanian intellectuals in exile (including Radio Free Europe's VirgilIerunca and Monica Lovinescu) to reject Communist proposals. In 1977, he joined...
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că nu crezi... (Scrisori către VirgilIerunca) (The God in Whom You Say You Don't Believe... Letters To Virgin Ierunca); Eu însumi și alți cîțiva (Myself...
a collaboration with Radio Free Europe, through both Lovinescu and VirgilIerunca, praising them at Ramuri, and reportedly informing them that he was...
Between 1967 and 1978 she was a collaborator of Monica Lovinescu and VirgilIerunca in their literary radio program aired by Radio Free Europe. While living...
life, with close connections with Andrei Pleșu, Monica Lovinescu, and VirgilIerunca. One critic, Gabriel Andreescu, suggested that Liiceanu allegedly facilitated...
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Curtain, where he met with prominent anti-communist intellectuals such as VirgilIerunca and Monica Lovinescu. However, the most important stage of his conflict...
retrospectively reviewed by the anticommunist culture-critic VirgilIerunca, in the 1994 essay Dimpotrivă. Ierunca dismissed his work as "state-run lying, with fervor...
Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs. Dan Burghelea Mihail Fărcășanu VirgilIerunca Nicolae Manolescu Gib Mihăescu Dem Rădulescu Dinu Săraru (in Romanian)...
project. Cantacuzino was Initially consigned to oblivion, and the exile VirgilIerunca made a first attempt at reviving his legacy. He published a Romanian-language...
Ticu Dumitrescu, Paul Goma (dismissed April 2006), Radu Filipescu, VirgilIerunca (died September 28, 2006), Sorin Ilieșiu [ro], Gail Kligman, Monica...
wishing to gauge the moral temperature of that particular generation". VirgilIerunca, at the time a columnist for the PCR's România Liberă, argued that Biberi's...
Theoretical High School Constantin Brâncoveanu High School, Horezu VirgilIerunca Theoretical High School, Lădești Măciuca Theoretical High School Alexandru...
them by Mircea Eliade. Among them, Emil Cioran, Moninca Lovinescu and VirgilIerunca, the couple whose programs broadcast by Free Europe or articles in the...
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