Modest Morariu (; August 11, 1929 – April 15, 1988) was a poet, essayist, prose writer and translator from Romania.

Morariu was born in Cernăuți. He was a director of the Meridiane publishing house, and translated, amongst others, works by André Malraux, Emil Cioran and Albert Camus into Romanian.

Modest Morariu

Books

Poems

Povestire cu fantome, 1968

Spectacolul de pantomimă, 1971

Ovăzul sălbatic, 1974

Novel

Întoarcerea lui Ulise, 1982

Essays

Între relativ şi absolut, 1979

Itinerarii, 1987

Fine arts albums

Ion Gheorghiu, 1966

Florin Pucă, 1974

Rousseau le Douanier, 1975

Goya-capricii, 1974

Toulouse-Lautrec, 1980

References

Aurel Sasu, Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române (M-Z), Paralela 45, 2006

Dana Dumitriu, in România literară, nr. 44, 1974

Valeriu Cristea, in România literară, nr. 6, 1976

Mircea Iorgulescu, România literară, nr. 42, 1979

Mircea Ivănescu, in Transilvania, nr. 9, 1982

Mihai Ungheanu, in Luceafărul, nr. 39, 1982

1929 births

1988 deaths

Romanian male poets

Writers from Chernivtsi

20th-century Romanian poets

20th-century Romanian male writers

Modest Morariu