Eugeniu Stefanescu Est

Eugeniu Stefanescu-Est (born Eugeniu Gh. Stefanescu; March 2, 1881–March 12, 1980) was a Romanian poet and prose writer.

Born in Craiova to composer George Stephanescu and his wife Eufrosina (nee Negoescu), he attended high school in Ploiesti and at Bucharest's Saint Sava High School from 1892 to 1900. He then studied law at Bucharest and Paris universities, obtaining a doctorate in 1904. He served as a judge from 1904 to 1909 at Turnu Magurele and Ciolanestii din Deal, and on the Storobaneasa-Barca circuit. He was a lawyer in Prahova County from 1910 and one in Ilfov County from 1923. He was a bailiff at the courthouses in Buzau (1931), Brasov (1933) and Alba Iulia (1934). He resigned from the magistracy in 1934. He was completely forgotten by 1947, when he was totally blind: a 1968 anthology listed him as deceased, he gave a Ionescian interview in 1977 at his Galati home, and he died at the age of 99.

He made his poetry debut with "Toamna" in Foaia pentru toti, in 1897. His work was also published in Literatorul, Samanatorul, Insula and Revista celorlalti. His first book was the 1911 Poeme; he also published the 1925 verse volume Imperii efemere. Another book, Armonii lascive, was announced but never appeared. He then turned to prose, writing collections of legends inspired by domestic and Oriental tales: Paunasul codrilor (1929), Povestea lui Buceag Imparat (1937), Povestea lui Mitu Sucitu (1939), Abdalah si frumoasa Azad (1939), Zastra fachirul (1939). His novels were Spre o noua viata (1941), Scoala dragostei (1943) and Femei moderne (1944). In 1949, he unsuccessfully attempted to publish the novella Tara mea frumoasa and the fairy tale Fat-Frumos din agrise.