Nicolae Manolescu Nicolae Manolescu Nicolae Manolescu (; b. 27 November 1939, Râmnicu Vâlcea) is a Romanian literary critic. As an editor of "România Literară" literary magazine, he has reached a record in reviewing books for almost 30 years. Elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1997, he was upgraded to titular member in 2013. During the civil unrest of the 1960s, because of critical opinions voiced against Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej and the Romanian Communist regime, he was expelled from the University of Bucharest, where he was studying philology. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he was a founding member of
Dan Ioan Popescu that he gained parts of his wealth by legal manners and therefore decided at 15.07.2011 to consfiscate 4.000.000 Lei of the wealth of Dan Ioan Popescu. Up to now it seem unclear whether the court rule is executed or not. Popescu declared to fight the rule of judges at European courts. The Romanian political scene following the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu's communist regime in December 1989 was dominated by an explosion of political structures of most diverse orientations, all engaging in an effervescent national debate regarding the future of the country. At the beginning of this post-1989 period, Dan Ioan