{"id":1918,"date":"2023-01-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/the-alexandrion-foundation-deeply-regrets-the-passing-of-writer-dumitru-radu-popescu-laureate-and-member-of-the-jury-of-the-constantin-brancoveanu-awards-gala\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T10:00:00","slug":"alexandrion-regrets-passing-dumitru-radu-popescu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/alexandrion-regrets-passing-dumitru-radu-popescu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alexandrion Foundation Deeply Regrets the Passing of Writer Dumitru Radu Popescu, Laureate and Member of the Jury of the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Alexandrion Foundation expresses its deepest regret at the passing of Academician Dumitru Radu Popescu, prose writer, playwright and essayist, who was a prominent member of the jury of the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards Gala from the first edition, in 2014, and also a laureate in the literature category, in 2015 and 2022.<\/p>\n

“The passing of the writer Dumitru Radu Popescu is an immense loss for Romanian culture. His body of work, which includes prose, theatre, poetry and literary criticism, is extremely valuable and represents a very strong source of inspiration for posterity. Through his involvement in the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards Gala as a jury member, Academician Dumitru Radu Popescu contributed significantly to the Alexandrion Foundation’s efforts to identify, bring to the forefront and thank the figures of Romanian culture for the remarkable work they have done over the years. We will be forever grateful to him for the support he gave us and we will keep his memory alive. Our condolences to his grieving family, and eternal rest to the soul of the great Romanian writer,” said Dr. Nawaf Salameh, President of the Alexandrion Foundation.<\/p>\n

Academician Dumitru Radu Popescu was a two-time laureate of the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards Gala. In 2015, he expressed his thanks for the award in the literature category that was presented to him, comparing it to a “grandchild of the Nobel Prize” from Romania.<\/p>\n

In 2022 he was once again a laureate of the Gala, again in the literature category, this time for the volume “One Hundred and One Poems”. Unfortunately, he could not be present at the event, but he sent a message in which he summed up, with expressiveness and humour, the essence of the Romanian people.<\/p>\n

Watch a short video with landmark moments from the galas: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y_-dX5i6LxU<\/a><\/p>\n

Dumitru Radu Popescu was a prose writer, playwright, film screenwriter, full member of the Romanian Academy and general director of the Romanian Academy Publishing House. Over the course of his career he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Tribuna<\/em>, <\/em>in Cluj-Napoca, editor-in-chief of the magazines Contemporanul <\/em>and Rom\u00e2nia literar\u0103, <\/em>and president of the Writers’ Union of Romania.<\/p>\n

The passing of Academician Dumitru Radu Popescu into eternity is a heavy and undeserved loss at the beginning of 2023.<\/p>\n

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About the Alexandrion Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Alexandrion Foundation was established as a result of the numerous social activities carried out by the companies within Alexandrion Group. Projects have been run under the umbrella of the Alexandrion Foundation for over 20 years. The Alexandrion Foundation follows the evolution of Alexandrion Group. The Alexandrion Foundation has actively supported culture since 2014 through the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards and honours excellence through the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Diaspora Awards and the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu International Awards. Through the Matei Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards, the Alexandrion Foundation recognises the development potential of young people, for research and exceptional achievements in their field of activity. Over time, the Foundation has also left its mark in supporting the performance of Romanian sport. The Alexandrion Trophies have honoured the international performance of Romanian athletes since 2016. The Foundation stood alongside the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee at the Olympic Games from 2004 to 2012, seeking to encourage young athletes to achieve the best possible results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Alexandrion Foundation expresses its deepest regret at the passing of Academician Dumitru Radu Popescu, prose writer, playwright and essayist, who was a prominent member of the jury of the Constantin Br\u00e2ncoveanu Awards Gala from the first edition, in 2014, and also a laureate in the literature category, in 2015 and 2022. “The passing of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alx_galerie":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-constantin-brancoveanu-awards-gala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundatia-nawafsalameh.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}