Biography

Urmuz was born on March 17, 1883 in Curtea de Arges, Arges County, Romania. He died on November 23, 1923 in Bucharest, Romania.

Writer, lawyer and civil servant, who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene. His scattered work, consisting of absurdist short prose and poetry, opened a new genre in Romanian letters and humor, and captured the imagination of modernists for several generations.