Sami Damian

S. Damian studied at the Jewish "Cultura Max Aziel" middle school in Bucharest, then at the "Mihai Eminescu" Literature and Literary Criticism School in Bucharest (1950-1955), and at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest (diploma received in 1972).

S. Damian made his debut around 1955/1956 with literary criticism written in the spirit of that age's dogmatism.

Marginalised for a period of time, he was sent to West Germany in the mid-1970s to teach Romanian language and literature at the University of Heidelberg, after which he defected.

[3] After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he published several books of literary criticism, essays, etc.

In 1998 Ion Negoițescu's book Dialoguri după tăcere.