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Lucian Raicu (born Bernard Leibovici) (1934-2006), literary critic and writer, born in Iasi, Romania. He attended the Mihai Eminescu Schol of Literature and Literary Criticism between 1952-1954 and then graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1958. Along with his wife Sonia Larian Ariane Lewenstein) (1931-2016), he left Romania in 1986 and settled in Paris, France. In Paris he collaborated with chroniclers at Radio France Internationale.   

His books include Liviu Rebreanu (1967), Structuri literare (“Literary structures”, 1973), Gogol sau fantasticul banalității (“Gogol or the Fantasy of Banality”, 1974), Critica – forma de viață (“Critique - the way of life”, 1976), Nicolae Labiș (1977), Printre contemporani, (“Among contemporaries”, 1980), Scene din romanul literaturii (“Scenes from the novel of literature”, 1985), Journal en miettes cu Eugène Ionesco (“Journal en miettes with Eugène Ionesco”, 1993). His antology O sută de scrisori din Paris (“One hundred letters from Paris”) was published posthumously in 2010.  

Lucian Raicu was married to Sonia Larian (1931-2016). 

Aurel Baranga (born Aurel Leibovici) (1913-1979), playwright and poet, born in Bucharest, Romania. He attended the Matei Basarab high school in Bucharest and graduated from School of Medicine of the University of Bucharest in 1938. He started his career as an avant-gardist poet publishing in Bilete de Papagal ("Parrot Tickets") – a left wing weekly literary and satirical magazine, and then he edited the avant-garde magazine Alge along with Gherasim Luca, Paul Păun, and Sesto Pais. During 1934 – 1940 he contributed a several periodicals including Facla, Cuvântul liber, Reporter, Azi and Lumea românească. 

In 1945 Baranga published Ninge peste Ucraina (“It's snowing over Ukraine”), a volume of reportages about the Holocaust in Transnistria, one the first and few accounts on the deportaion and murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews published in immediate postwar Romania.

In 1946 he published Marea furtună (“The big storm”), his last book of poetry with avant-garde elements. In 1948 he wrote the lyrics of Zdrobite cătușe (“Crushed handcuffs”), the national anthem of the Communist Romania from 1948 to 1953. At the request of the Communist party, in the same year Baranga founded Urzica (“Nettle”), a satire and humor magazine and he serves as its editor-in-chief until his death. He worked for the Romanian National Theater during 1949-1953 and 1958-1961. From 1969 to 1974 he was a member of Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party.

His plays, mostly written in socialist realist style dictated by the Communist party, include Bal în Făgădău (“Party in Făgădău”, 1946), Mielul turbat (“The mad lamb”, 1954), Adam și Eva (“Adam and Eve”, 1963), Sfântul Mitică Blajinu (“Saint Mitică Blajinu”, 1966), Opinia publică (“Public opinion”, 1967), Interesul general (“General interst”, 1971), Viața unei femei (“Life of a woman”, 1975). During the Communist regime in Romania, Baranga was one of the most popular playwrights and the author of successful comedies, also staged abroad.

Baranga was awarded the State Prize in 1954 and the Prize of the Writers' Association of Bucharest in 1975.

Radu Lupan (born Raymond Leibovici) (1920-), essayist and translator, born in Galati, Romania. He studied philology and philosophy at the University of Bucharest. He was a lecture at the English literature department of the University of Bucharest, and also at the University of Hull, UK, and as a visiting professor at various academic institutions in England, Germany and United States.

He was an editor at the Contemporanul literary magazine and at Editura de Stat pentru Literatura si Arta (ESPLA) where he was editor-in-chief of foreign publications and serves as head of department at the Romanian Writers' Union (1959-1983).

Lupan started his literary career with prose pieces, translations of poetry and and of literary criticism published in the literary section of the Ecoul newspaper (1943). His works include the monographies G. B. Shaw (1958) and Hemingway, scriitorul (“Hemingway, the writer”, 1966), the novel Razboiul ascuns (“The hidden war”, 1961), poetry Ca si cum (“As if”, 1980), and two volumes of literary essays Text si context (1983) and Moderni si postmodernii (“Moderns and the postmoderns”, l988). He translated extensively from the works of James Joyce, Somerset Maugham, William Faulkner, J. Dos Pasos, Ernst Hemingway and others.