Mircea Gesticone - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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May 03, 1902 Died on 05 Aug 1961 (aged 59)

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About Mircea Gesticone

  • Mircea Gesticone (May 3, 1902 – August 5, 1961) was a Romanian novelist and poet. Born in Bucharest, he was the fifth child of Filip Gesticone and his wife Zamfira (née Ursachi).
  • His father, a lawyer, came from a family of Ploie?ti merchants.
  • His mother was descended from a family of small-scale leaseholders from Boto?ani and was friends with Sofia Nadejde.
  • Gesticone's education took place in his native city: Dinicu Golescu elementary school, the lower form of Mihai Viteazul High School, the upper form of Gheorghe Lazar High School.
  • At seventeen, he was admitted to the Bucharest Conservatory as a fourth-year student, but abandoned the study of music.
  • He attended the law faculty of the University of Bucharest from 1922 to 1926, meanwhile taking courses at the Italian Institute of Culture.
  • From 1923 to 1954, he was a clerk at Banca Româneasca.
  • His first published poem, "Apotheose", appeared in La Roumanie nouvelle magazine in 1929.
  • His first novel, Razboiul micului Tristan, came out in 1937, and he was awarded the Romanian Writers' Society prize the same year.
  • After his wife died in a tramway accident in 1948, he lived a withdrawn existence and abandoned writing.

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