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Anti-Communist dissident Cornea laid to rest in Cluj-Napoca in military funeral
Hundreds of people attended the military funeral in Cluj-Napoca on Monday of well-known anti-Communist dissident Doina Cornea, in the foyer of the University House near the headquarters of the Babes-Bolyai University, where she used to teach years ago.
More than 400 people, including former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu and poet Ana Blandiana, attended the event.
Romanian Academy's President Ioan-Aurel Pop: Doina Cornea, legendary face, comparable to Harriet Beecher Stowe
The President of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop, compared Doina Cornea with the author of the famous novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", who is known to have had a frail stature but who succeeded in overturning a world of injustice."
Cornea, Visniec, Negrici, among the 2014 USR prize winners
Paul Cornea, Matei Visniec, Gabriela Adamesteanu and Eugen Negrici are some of the winners of the 2014 prizes of the Romanian Writers' Union (USR), presented on Monday in the Auditorium of the Carol I Central University Library.