VASILE POENARU (Romania)

VASILE POENARU (born August 22, 1955 in Miloșești, Ialomița) is a Romanian writer, translator and lexicographer, member of the Writers’ Union of Romania.

Between 1962 and 1970 he attended elementary school in his native village. He completed his high school studies at the “Sfântul Sava” National College in Bucharest, where he was brought by the poet Petre Ghelmez. Between 1975 and 1979 he completed his higher education at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature, English department, graduating as head of the class. He taught practical classes at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures, and since 2009 he has been teaching English at the Children’s Club Sector 2, Bucharest. He has a Master’s degree in Applied English Linguistics, with a teaching profile, at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures, University of Bucharest.

He started his literary career at the age of 12, publishing in various local magazines and newspapers. He wrote children’s books, didactic works and translated from Italian, English and Turkish poetry. In 1990 he founded the “Coresi” Publishing House. In 2000 he became a member of the Writers’ Union.

He published seven volumes of verse, a poetic anthology (Jungla marină, 1969 – 1999, published in 1999 by Coresi Publishing House, Bucharest) and several books of stories, poems and skits for children. He is the author of dictionaries and didactic works.

In 1999 he was awarded the Bucharest Association Prize of the Romanian Writers’ Union – Children and Youth Literature Section.