Mircea Sântimbreanu (January 7, 1926 – August 19, 1999) was a Romanian writer, journalist, screenwriter and film producer. Sântimbreanu was the director of the publishing house

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, and is best remembered as a writer of children's literature. The literary magazine ''Observator Cultural'' listed Sântimbreanu as one of the leading writers of children's literature in Romania, among others such as

Dumitru Almaș Dumitru Almaș (; pen name of Dumitru Ailincăi ; October 19, 1908 – March 12, 1995) was a Romanian journalist, novelist, historian, writer and professor. His prolific output included children's literature, historical novels and textbooks. H ...

, Călin Gruia, Gica Iuteș, Octav Pancu-Iași, and

Ovidiu Zotta Ovidiu Zotta (1935–1996) was a Romanian writer of children's stories and an editor, scriptwriter and comic strip designer. In the late 1960s he created a character, "Dim Dunăreanu" who was a superhero for children and has been called the "Romani ...

Selected works

* ''Cu și fără ghiozdan'' (1956), * ''Extemporale și... alte lucrări scrise'' (1963), * ''Lângă groapa cu furnici'' (1964), * ''Recreația mare'' (1965), reeditare Editura Herra, 2009 * ''32 de premianți'' (1980) * ''Să stăm de vorbă fără catalog'' (1980) * ''Mama mamuților mahmuri'' (1980) * ''Pescuitul de la A la Z – ghidul pescarului sportiv'', Editura Venus, 1995 * ''Să stăm de vorbă fără catalog'', Editura Herra, 2009

References

1926 births 1999 deaths Romanian children's writers Romanian male screenwriters 20th-century Romanian screenwriters 20th-century Romanian journalists {{Romania-writer-stub