Liviu Rebreanu (1885-1944)

Death: 1st September 1944
Location: Cimitirul Bellu / Bellu Cemetery, Bucharest, Romania
Cause of death: Lung Disease
Photo taken by: Britchi Mirela
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Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist. His first published work was a volume of novellas called Frământări / Troublings (1912). During World War I Rebreanu worked as reporter for Adevărul, and he continued to publish short stories. In 1920 Rebreanu published his novel Ion, the first modern Romanian novel, in which he depicted the struggles over land ownership in rural Transylvania.  In 1922 he published Pădurea spânzuraților / Forest of the Hanged  which is partly inspired by the experience of his brother, Emil Rebreanu, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army hanged for espionage and desertion in 1917, during World War I.