WRITER

Tristan Tzara

1896 - 1963

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Tristan Tzara (; French: [tʁistɑ̃ dzaʁa]; Romanian: [trisˈtan ˈt͡sara]; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1896 – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. Under the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism and co-founded the magazine Simbolul with Ion Vinea (with whom he also wrote experimental poetry) and painter Marcel Janco. During World War I, after briefly collaborating on Vinea's Chemarea, he joined Janco in Switzerland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tristan Tzara is the 227th most popular writer (down from 205th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Romania and the 2nd most popular Romanian Writer.

Tristan Tzara is most famous for his Dadaist poems and his co-founding of the Dadaist movement.

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Among writers, Tristan Tzara ranks 227 out of 7,302. Before him are Chinghiz Aitmatov, Lu Xun, Stanisław Lem, Anacreon, Annie Ernaux, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer, John the Evangelist, Pliny the Younger, Nelly Sachs, Ray Bradbury, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

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Among people born in 1896, Tristan Tzara ranks 9. Before him are Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, André Breton, Imre Nagy, and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After him are Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Robert S. Mulliken. Among people deceased in 1963, Tristan Tzara ranks 10. Before him are Robert Frost, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Robert Schuman, and W. E. B. Du Bois. After him are Lee Harvey Oswald, C. S. Lewis, Ngo Dinh Diem, Thích Quảng Đức, Francis Poulenc, and Abd el-Krim.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Tristan Tzara ranks 11 out of 844. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Michael I of Romania (1921), Stephen Báthory (1533), Alaric I (376), Emil Cioran (1911), and John Hunyadi (1407). After him are Ion Antonescu (1882), Béla IV of Hungary (1206), Herta Müller (1953), Mircea Eliade (1907), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), and Radu cel Frumos (1438).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Tristan Tzara ranks 2. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909). After him are Herta Müller (1953), Paul Celan (1920), Elie Wiesel (1928), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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