Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu

Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu (born Moise Cahn[1] or Cohn;[2] 16 August 1921, in Galați, Romania – 27 April[3] or 28 April[1] 2000, in Berlin, Germany) was a Romanian literary critic and science fiction writer.

After World War II, he had a series of jobs in the magazines (Contemporanul, Viața Românească, Gazeta literară) and in a publishing house (Editura Didactică și Pedagogică) before beginning to work as an academic, eventually becoming a professor at the Department of Romanian Language and Literature of the University of Bucharest.

[1] During the first two decades after World War II, at least, Crohmălniceanu was known as a promoter of socialist realism,[1] branding any kind of freedom writers dared take as being "reminiscences of bourgeois thinking" and "influenced by reactionary circles in the West.

"[3] But, at the same time, he is one of those who played a major role in bringing Tudor Arghezi and Lucian Blaga back into the limelight, after they had been marginalized.

[3] In his last decade in Romania, before emigrating to Germany in 1992, he supported many young writers, encouraging them to follow another path than that of communist nationalism.