Dumitru Găleșanu

Dumitru Găleșanu (born 5 December 1955) is a Romanian author and jurist. He is a postmodern poet-philosopher, writer, essayist and book illustrator. He has won prizes in several international literary competitions in Italy. His last literary creation was the book entitled Mirabile iubiri. Antologie de gânduri și amintiri/Mirabili amori. Antologia di pensieri e ricordi ("Wonderful loves. Anthology of thoughts and memories"), prose, Romanian-Italian edition, published in Bucharest on October 16, 2023.

As a result of completing university studies in the field of legal sciences, he worked for a long period in the legal domain, spending over 24 years exclusively in Romania's judicial system. 

At the same time, he devoted himself to literary-artistic creation and philosophy. Most of his works were written and published successively in the form of philosophical poems, in a metaphysical poetic language, with postmodern stylistic influences.

 Early life and professional career 
Undergraduate education. After graduating from National College "Mircea cel Bătrân" (formerly "Vasile Roaită" High School of Mathematics and Physics) in Râmnicu Vâlcea, between 1981 and 1986 - Găleșanu attended undergraduate studies at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Law: Legal Sciences profile, Law specialization.

In the period between 1989 and 2014, he followed his professional career in the judicial field, fulfilling the function of magistrate-judge, first at the Mixed Section (Criminal law, Civil law) of the Râmnicu Vâlcea local first-instance Court, until 1997 and then continuing at the Civil Section I within the Vâlcea County Tribunal. He ceased professional activity on  September 3, 2014.

 Awards and distinctions 
 Career Award, International Competition Prize "Poetry, Prose and Figurative Arts" and Theater Prize "Angelo Musco" (2016)
 National Poetry Prize Competition (2018)
 National Literary Competition (2019)

 Published books 

 Emoții în multivers/Emotions into multiverse (2010)

 Pe corzile luminii/Sulle stringhe di luce (2011)

 Fugă spre roșu/Fuggire verso il rosso (2012)

 Însemnele materiei/Insegne della materia (2013)

 Addéndum (2014)

 Ante*metafizica: antologie lirică. Ediția I, bibliofilă (2015)

 Tratat pentru nemurire/Trattato per l’immortalità (2016)      …ghilimele de bolduire sau pt. lnk. interne succesive par a fi în plus…

 Axiomele infinității/Assiomi dell’infinità (2017)

 Ante*metafizica: antologie lirică. Ediția a 2-a, revizuită și adăugită (2018)

 Poetică metafizică/Poetica metafisica (2019)

 Luminile omului: lirica filosofică (2020)

 The Lights of Man: the philosophical lyric poetry (2021)

 Le luci dellʼuomo: lirica filosofica (2021)

 In aeternum poetic@ (2022)

 Mirabile iubiri. Antologie de gânduri și amintiri/Mirabili amori. Antologia di pensieri e ricordi (2023)
References and sources
 References 

Works about Găleșanu

 Eugen Evu, [A poetic encounter: Awaiting for Dumitru Găleșanu with «The Insignias of Matter»...], in Book with Open Wings, Literary Destinies Publishing, Montreal, 2013, pp.119-124. ISBN 978-0-9920329-3-7.
Other websites

Authors | Open Library — Dumitru Găleșanu. openlibrary.org. 

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