gellu naum (
lahir di bukares, ia adalah putra dari penyair andrei naum dan istrinya maria.
pada tahun 1933, ia mulai belajar filsafat di universitas bukares.
pada tahun 1938, ia melanjutkan pendidikannya di universitas paris.
ia mendapat gelar phd melalui tesis mengenai filsuf pierre abelard.
drumeul incendiar ("the incendiary traveler"; poems, illustrated by victor brauner), bucharest, 1936
vasco de gama, (poem, illustrated by jacques hrold), bucharest, 1940
culoarul somnului, ("the corridor of sleep"; poems, illustrated by victor brauner), bucharest, 1944
medium (prose), bucharest, 1945
critica mizeriei ("critique of misery"; manifesto, co-written with paul pun and virgil teodorescu), bucharest, 1945
teribilul interzis ("the terrible forbidden"; drama, illustrated by paul pun), bucharest, 1945
spectrul longevitii: 122 de cadavre ("the specter of longevity: 122 corpses"; drama, co-written with virgil teodorescu), bucharest, 1946
castelul orbilor ("castle of the blind"; drama), bucharest, 1946
l'infra-noir ("infra-black"; manifesto, co-written with gherasim luca, paul pun, virgil teodorescu, and dolfi trost), bucharest, 1947
loge de malombra - cerne de l'amour absolu ("malombra's eulogy - black circle of absolute love"; manifesto, co-written with gherasim luca, paul pun, and dolfi trost), bucharest, 1947
filonul, bucharest, 1952 ("the vein"; prose)
tabra din muni, bucharest, 1953 ("the camp in the mountains"; prose)
aa-i sanda, bucharest, 1956 ("so is sanda"; poems for children)
cartea cu apolodor, bucharest, 1959 ("the book with apolodor"; poems for children, illustrated by jules perahim)
poem despre tinereea noastr, bucharest, 1960 ("poem about our youth"; poems, illustrated by jules perahim)
soarele calm, bucharest, 1961 ("the calm sun"; poems, illustrated by jules perahim)
a doua carte cu apolodor, bucharest, 1964 ("the second book with apolodor"; poems for children, illustrated by jules perahim)
athanor (poems), bucharest, 1968
poetizai, poetizai... ("poeticize, poeticize..."; prose), bucharest, 1970
copacul-animal ("the animal-tree"; poems), bucharest, 1971
tatl meu obosit ("my tired father"; poems), bucharest, 1972
poeme alese ("selected poems"; poems), bucharest, 1974
crile cu apolodor ("the apolodor books", poems for children), bucharest, 1975
descrierea turnului ("description of the tower"; poems), bucharest, 1975
poate eleonora ("the island.
the taus clockmakers.
eleonora, perhaps"; drama), bucharest, 1979
partea cealalt ("the other side"; poems), bucharest, 1980
zenobia (novel), bucharest, 1985
amedeu, cel mai cumsecade leu, bucharest, 1988 ("amedeu, the most honest lion"; poems for children, illustrated by n. nobilescu)
apolodor, un mic pinguin cltor, bucharest, 1988 ("apolodor, a small travelling penguin"; poems for children, illustrated by n.
malul albastru ("the blue shore; prose), bucharest, 1990
faa i suprafaa, urmat de malul albastru ("face and surface, followed by the blue shore", poems), bucharest, 1994
focul negru ("black fire"; poems), bucharest, 1995
sora fntn ("sister fountain"; poems), bucharest, 1995
ntrebtorul ("the inquirer"; prose), bucharest, 1996
copacul-animal, urmat de avantajul vertebrelor ("the animal-tree, followed by the advantage of vertebrae"), cluj-napoca, 2000
ascet la baraca de tir ("recluse in the firing range shack"; poems), bucharest, 2000
calea earpelui ("the way of the snake"), bucharest, 2002 (posthumous)
walter cummins, shifting borders: east european poetries of the eighties, fairleigh dickinson university press, madison, 1993, p.328 isbn 0-8386-3497-4
gellu naum site
naum's nomination for the nobel prize in literature at the romanian pen club site