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In the summer of 1942, the writer, journalist and historian of religion Mircea Eliade was briefly in Bucharest, between leaving his diplomatic post in London and taking over the one at the Romanian Embassy in Lisbon. This was the last time the author, then aged 35, saw his home country and, more importantly, his birth city, Bucharest, which he gave a mythical aura in his prose. This was also when he left his entire personal archive, with manuscripts, documents and scientific writings, in the care of his family, until his return which, in 1942, seemed not only possible, but simply natural. As we know, this never happened, and Eliade died abroad in 1986.
The archive in Bucharest was kept by his sister, Corina, until her own death in 1989. Unfortunately, since then Eliade's documents were neglected, and to this day they have not been properly accounted for and studied by experts. However, the Romanian Academy's Institute for the History of Religions has rece
The
National Museum of Romanian Literature in 2021 has been the recipient of the
European Prize. As part of the on-line awarding ceremony for the European
Museum Academy Awards, the DASA Award went to two of the most relevant and
significant projects the Museum has carried in the last seven years: the main
exhibition in the Nicolae Cretulescu Street and the Anton Pann Memorial House exhibition.
We recall Anton Pann was a Romanian poet of the early 19th century.
Pann was also a composer of religious music, a folklore collector, a man of letters
and a regular contributor to various publications of his time. Here is the judging
panel s motivation for the award: The permanent exhibition is impressive thanks
to its low-key yet minutely organized layout, rounding off the historical
building which is home to the exhibition. In its educational programs, the National
Museum of Romanian Literature has been audacious and utterly uncompromising,
acting as a vehicle for today s