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- Eugen Ionesco – Fighting The Absurd With Its Own WeaponsAna Aslan – The Fight Against AgingNadia Comaneci – The Mark of PerfectionBlack Tourism in RomaniaRomanian Comedy PlaysHenri Coanda – Father of the JetGopo – A Romanian Walt DisneyGeorge Emil Palade – The Romanian Nobel PrizeRomanian Touches In World CulturePetrache Poenaru – Inventor Of The Fountain PenEmil Racovita – A Scientist With A Taste For AdventureUnforgettable Romanian MoviesThe Story of The LipovansJean Negulesco – A Romanian at HollywoodThe Romanian Book MarketMihai Eminescu – the Genius of Romanian LiteratureRomania’s Eye for ArtMaria Tănase – the Voice of Romanian FolkloreTraditional Hand Made Crafts Fair in OradeaPetreus Brothers“Police, adjective” – Another Memorable Movie by Corneliu PorumboiuBranding RomaniaReaping Dreams with Paula SelingThe Concert Market in RomaniaTransylvania Film Festival – Celebrating Film for 8 YearsOina – Romanian baseballBoogie – One Movie, an Universal StoryIndependenta Romaniei, The First Romanian Full Length MovieBucharest Days – Taking a Walk Through Bucharest’s History
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Culture
Gopo – A Romanian Walt Disney
In 1957, a short animated film, about a strange little man, created by an unknown Romanian artist named Ioan Popescu-Gopo (1923-1989), won the greatest prize for this section at the Cannes Festival.
Ioan Popescu was born in Bucharest in 1923 and he got his nickname “Gopo” from the abbreviation of his parents’ last names – Gorenco (his mother) and Popescu (his father). Gopo – A Romanian Walt Disney
George Emil Palade – The Romanian Nobel Prize
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, won by Herta Huller, a German writer who was born and spent a part of her life in Romania, reopened the debate whether a winner of this prestigious prize should also be claimed by his or her native country, not just by the adoptive one. In the case of Emil Palade (1912 – 2008), although he lived and worked in the USA, his Romanian origins are no longer neglected, as he himself admitted in his acceptance speech.George Emil Palade – The Romanian Nobel Prize
Romanian Touches In World Culture
Bram Stoker’s Dracula transformed a piece of Romanian history into an icon famous throughout the world, but there are other, less known, references about Romania and Romanians in various manifestations of universal culture. Let’s continue with literature, for instance.Romanian Touches In World Culture
Petrache Poenaru – Inventor Of The Fountain Pen
When you sign an important document or your wedding certificate, you shold bear in mind that the fountain pen you are using was invented by a Romanian, Petrache Poenaru (1799 – 1875).Petrache Poenaru – Inventor Of The Fountain Pen
Emil Racovita – A Scientist With A Taste For Adventure
The great explorers are those who feed upon adventure, are endowed with a sharp mind and have a ceaseless desire to discover.Emil Racovita – A Scientist With A Taste For Adventure
