Mihai Rădulescu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj rəduˈlesku]; May 15, 1936 – January 20, 2009) was a Romanian novelist, poet, historian, and art critic.
He was born in Bucharest, the only child of Dumitru and Toni Rădulescu.
After attending French schools in his native city, he enrolled in the School of English Studies, Department of Letters at the University of Bucharest.
In November 1956, while he was a second year student, he was arrested for participating in a political protest, and sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment, which he spent at the Jilava and Gherla prisons and the Periprava, Salcia , and Luciu-Giurgeni [ro] camps of the Brăila Swamp labor camps system.
[1] After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he started the publishing company "Ramida".