A bust of the academician Eugen Simion was inaugurated on Writers' Alley in Alba Iuliatranslated

A bust of academician Eugen Simion was inaugurated last Sunday on Writers' Alley in Alba Iulia.

"Four years after his passing into eternity, Alba paid tribute to the academician Eugen Simion, a reference name of Romanian culture and a friend of our county", the president of the Alba County Council, Ion Dumitrel, sent on his Facebook page.

Prior to the inauguration of the busust, in the Senate Hall - Rectorate of the "1 December 1918" University in Alba Iulia, the symposium "Cultural excellence as heritage" took place, dedicated to the memory of the academician Eugen Simion, moderated by the director of the Center for Philological Research and Multicultural Dialogue, Diana Câmpan.

The event began with a moment of silence on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the death of the former president of the Romanian Academy.

Eugene Simion He was a critic and literary historian, essayist and editor, professor of literature at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.

He taught courses on Romanian culture and civilization at the Université Paris IV (Sorbonne) and was a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris (Fontenay-aux-Roses). He was director of...