F. Brunea-Fox

Born into a Jewish family in Roman, his parents were Simcha Brauner and Leia (née Gelbert).

He wrote surrealist poems and sketches for unu and Integral, and his work also appeared in Absolutio, Arena, Zări senine, 75 H. P., Punct, Adam, Reporter, Mântuirea, Izbânda, Jurnalul de dimineață, România Liberă, Scînteia, Viața Românească, Flacăra, Magazinul, Viața militară, Contemporanul, România Literară, Veac nou, Presa noastră, La Roumanie d’aujourd’hui and Îndrumătorul cultural.

[1] A dedicated reporter, Brunea-Fox became known for his work published in Dimineața, Adevărul and Jurnalul, which appeared in book form as Orașul măcelului (1944), and posthumously as Reportajele mele.

[1] Jurnalul rebeliunii, a description of the January 1941 Bucharest pogrom, is among the few Holocaust accounts published in immediate postwar Romania.

He helped shape a new style of literary reporting, which influenced the young Geo Bogza, as well as several writers who came to prominence in the 1970s.