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Neagu Djuvara: Actor and poetry performer
On Sunday, May 31st, starting from 11 o'clock, the Black Box Hall of the National Theatre will host a unique meeting - Neagu Djuvara: Actor and poetry performer.
For the third time on the NTB stage, Neagu Djuvara, a refined man of culture, career diplomat, with a tumultuous life, spent mostly in Africa and Paris, head of the Western intelligence services during the Second World War, will surprise us with a hypostasis unknown to the general public, that of performer of some verses from French and Romanian lyric poetry. The selection of poems belongs to the lecturer and proves his great lightness in traversing the vast territories of poetry.
About Neagu Djuvara:
Neagu Djuvara was born in Bucharest in 1916. He holds a degree in Letters from the Sorbonne (history, 1937) and a PhD in Law (Paris, 1940). In 1972, he obtained his state PhD at the Sorbonne with a thesis on the philosophy of history.
Entered by competition at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May 1943, he was sent a diplomatic courier to Stockholm on the morning of August 23, 1944, in connection with the peace negotiations with the Soviet Union. He is appointed legation secretary in Stockholm, by the Sănătescu government. He remained in Sweden until 1947, when the Communists took over the Foreign Ministry. He decided to remain in exile, militating, until 1961, in various organizations of the Romanian diaspora (general secretary of the Romanian Refugee Assistance Committee, in Paris; journalism; Radio Free Europe; general secretary of the "Carol I" University Foundation, etc.) .
In 1961, he went to Africa, to Niger, where he remained for 23 years as diplomatic and legal advisor to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and concurrently professor of International Law and Economic History.
Since 1984, he has been a Secretary General of the Romanian House in Paris, until after the Revolution of December 1989, when he returned to his country.
Since 1991, he has been an associate professor at the University of Bucharest and an honorary member of the "A.D. Xenopol" History Institute of Iasi and the "Nicolae Iorga" History Institute of Bucharest.
Among his many works we mention: Le droit roumain en matière de nationalité, Paris, 1940 (doctoral thesis); Civilizations and Historical Patterns: A Comparative Study of Civilizations, Humanitas, 1999; Between East and West. The Romanian Countries at the Beginning of the Modern Era, Humanitas, sixth ed., 2008; The Aromanians - History, Language, Destiny, Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996; A Brief History of Romanians Told to Young People, Humanitas, ninth ed., 2008; Memories from Exile, Albatross, 2002; Humanitas, fourth ed., 2008; French version: Bucharest-Paris-Niamey et retour ou Souvenirs de 42 ans d'exil (1948-1990), L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004; Is There True History ?, Humanitas, third ed., 2008.
Press
"In a discussion in which he confessed to me, Mr. Djuvara told me that he often concealed in himself a potential actor and a lover of beautiful words, especially poetry, and wants to make them public" (Ion Caramitru)
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
