Radu Stanca

Born in Sebeș, he spent his early years in Cluj, where he attended the Gheorghe Barițiu High School.

He then studied philosophy at the University of Cluj, completing his studies in 1942 in Sibiu (after part of the university moved there when Northern Transylvania was ceded to Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Award).

[1] Stanca was member of the Sibiu Literary Circle, a movement of young poets and essayists who tried, between 1946 and 1948, to rejuvenate the main literary style and aesthetical thinking.

In 1947 he received the Lovinescu award for his tragicomedy Dona Juana.

[3] Streets in Alba Iulia, Cluj-Napoca, and Sibiu bear his name.