Camil Baciu (born Camillo Kaufman 21 June 1926,

Galați Galați ( , , ; also known by other #Etymology and names, alternative names) is the capital city of Galați County in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in eastern Romania. Galați is a port town on the river Danube. and the sixth-larges ...

– died 22 April 2005, Paris) was a Romanian journalist and science fiction writer. Camil Baciu was born Camillo Kaufman, in Galați Romania to a Jewish family. He studied in Vasile Alecsandri high school and later in the Polytechnic institute in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

, majoring in Hydraulics. He worked as an engineer for seven years but later switched vocation and started writing plays and prose. While working as a journalist for the newspaper Flacăra, he went on a rowing expedition on the Danube river, from the

Iron Gates The Iron Gates (; ; ; Hungarian: ''Vaskapu-szoros'') is a gorge on the river Danube. It forms part of the boundary between Serbia (to the south) and Romania (north). In the broad sense it encompasses a route of ; in the narrow sense it only ...

to the delta and published his diary in the newspaper. He was a friend of, among others,

Iordan Chimet Iordan Chimet (November 18, 1924 – May 23, 2006) was a Romanian poet, children's writer and essayist, whose work was inspired by Surrealism and Onirism. He is also known as a memoirist, theater, art and film critic, book publisher and translato ...

(with whom he was part of an anti-Fascist group) and

Gheorghe Ursu Gheorghe Emil Ursu (known to friends as Babu; July 1, 1926 – November 17, 1985) was a Romanian construction engineer, poet, diarist and dissident. A left-wing activist and avant-garde intellectual who joined the Romanian Communist Party as a youth ...

. In 1969 he left Romania, settling in Paris. In Lyon, France, Camil Baciu founded the Neutrino pantomime theater. In 1974 he wrote the play "Pledoyer Pour August" which showed in Théâtre de l’Atelier on Paris.

Bibliography

* "Not Far From The Princess Castle",

București Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2. ...

, 1956 * "Experience Colombina" , ''CPSF'' 126-127, Science and Technology Review, 1960 (2 vol.) * "Brain Revolt" , Tineretului Publishing House,

, 1962 * "Cubic Planet" , Tineretului Publishing House,

, 1964 * "The Great Law", 1964 * "Met...", Editura Revista Știință și Tehnică, 1964 (2 vol.) * "The Orange Sun", 1965 * "The Destiny Machine", Tineretului Publishing House,

, 1966 * "Ienicec", 1967 * "The Garden of the Gods", Tineretului Publishing House,

, 1968 (re-published in 2001 at the Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House) * ''Aragua'', novel

References

* Garden Of the Gods scribd.co
goodreads.com
* Machine of Destiny scribd.co
goodreads.com
* Brain Revol
scribd.com
* The Great La
goodreads.com
* Met..
goodreads.com

Nemira publishing house

From Social Realism to Science Fiction
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baciu, Camil Romanian novelists Jewish Romanian writers Romanian emigrants to France People from Galați 1926 births 2005 deaths