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Crisula Ștefănescu is a graduate of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Bucharest. In 1982 he emigrated to Germany and worked at the "Europa Libera" radio station. For nine years he has been a researcher-analyst within the "Research Institute of Free Europe" where he writes and publishes analysis and synthesis works for the Western press about the events and ideological aspects of Romanian cultural life. In 1992, she moved to the Broadcasting Department as presenter of the cultural program "Controversies-Confluențe Est-Vest". He has published over 30 volumes: poetry, theater, novels, children's books, interviews, memoirs. Many of the poems are reminiscent of Omar Khayyam's Rabaiates. At the level of form, even if it does not respect the model of the Iranian poet's quatrains, one can observe an obvious tendency of Crisula Ştefănescu to condense the philosophical message into as few lines as possible, some poems having the extreme concentration of some haikus. At the level of the content, the similarity is even greater, the poet's verses being born from that diffuse anguish in front of the fatality of the passage of time doubled by the implicit urge to live your moment. Tudor Urian