Ștefan Augustin Doinaș

Ştefan Augustin Doinaş (pen name of Ştefan Popa) (April 26 1922 in Cherechiu, Romania - May 25, 2002 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian Neoclassical poet of the Communist era. He studied philology at Cluj. Doinaş published his first volume of poems, Cartea mareelor, 1964. Some of his most famous works include: Omul cu compasul, Seminţia lui Laokoon, Anotimpul discret, Interiorul unui poem, and Lamentaţii.

He died of throat cancer; that night, his wife Silvia Lia Popa, a former first ballerina whom he married in 1958, committed suicide.