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Liviu Bratoloveanu, pen name of Vasile Gheorghe Bratoloveanu (8 August 1912 – 13 July 1983), was a Romanian poet, novelist, playwright, and communist militant. He was a native of Turnu Severin in westernmost Oltenia, an area that remained central to his fiction. During a troubled childhood which eventually saw him abandoning school, he debuted with contributions in children's magazine. In his twenties, he became a full-time journalist, publishing his first volume of poetry in 1935. Bratoloveanu was by then adapting to the stylistic requirements of proletarian literature, and, in terms of politics, moved closer to the outlawed Communist Party (which he would only join upon its legalization, in 1945). A succession of fascist regimes silenced this aspect of his contributions, though he was still allowed to work in cultural journalism—finding permanent employment as a clerk and cultural promoter in the state railway carrier. During World War II, Bratoloveanu was mostly withdrawn, working intensely on a series of novels and stories that were only published much much later, or not published at all.