Aurel Chirescu (September 11, 1911 – 1996) was aRomanian poet.
Born inCraiova, his parents were army officer Dumitru Chirescu and his wife Eleonora (née Groșeanu). After attending a rural primary school, he went to high school in his native city and inBucharest. He studied at the literature and philosophy faculty of theUniversity of Bucharest, graduatingmagna cum laude; his professors includedNicolae Cartojan,Ovid Densusianu,Mihail Dragomirescu,Tudor Vianu andAlexandru Rosetti. From 1935, he taught at various Bucharest high schools.[1]
While still in high school, he made his published debut in the school magazineAmicii culturii, which he edited himself; his first work in a serious publication came in 1928 inArhivele Olteniei magazine. His first book was the 1939Finister, which was awarded the Young Writers' Prize by theCarol I Academic Foundation. From 1933 to 1935, he editedLitere magazine, which had a certain impact at the time. Publications that ran his work includeGândirea,Revista Fundațiilor Regale,Universul literar,România Literară andConvorbiri Literare. Before the end of World War II, he published two further volumes of poetry,Stinsa oglindire (1943,Romanian Academy Prize) andOspățul de taină (1944). He returned to writing in the 1970s, and his books of that decade includeFinister 2 (1970),Metafore (1971),Pasarea de cenușă (1972) andBrâncuși (vol. I-II, 1972 and 1974).[1]