Laszlo Alexandru

Laszlo Alexandru is a Romanian essayist, literary critic, literary historian, translator and journalist. He is an Italian teacher. He is editor of E-Leonardo cultural magazine and coordinator of the Italian collection at the "Ecou Transilvan" Publishing House. He is known for his Dante interpretation contributions in the university field in Romania and in Europe, in the Romanian culture and in the Italian culture. Also known in Israel for his cultural studies on the Holocaust. Since 2014, he is a member of the Romanian Writers' Union. His books have been published in Romania and in the Republic of Moldova. He won the Romanian Writers' 2020 Special Award for Lectura lui Dante. Infernul; Purgatoriul; Paradisul. Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by decree of the President of the Republic, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Foreign Affairs.

Biography

Born in Cluj, Laszlo graduated from the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, in 1989. He participated at the anti-communist rebellion from Cluj, in December 1989. He briefly described, in several published texts, the circumstances in which some revolutionaries from Cluj were shot.

Career

Since 1992, he is a teacher of Italian at George Barițiu National College in Cluj-Napoca. Editorial debut in 1996 with the volume Între Icar și Anteu. Ph.D. in Letters with the thesis Criticul literar Nicolae Manolescu, UBB, 1999.