
Who Killed Nicolae Labiș? The Story of the Brilliant Poet Who Met His End at 21, Struck by a Tram
On the night between December 9 and 10, 1956, Bucharest lay asleep under the grip of winter, but near Colțea Hospital, one of the most haunting dramas in Romanian literature was unfolding. Nicolae Labiș — the symbolic poet of a generation, the prodigy of postwar Romanian poetry — was living his final moments. At just 21 years old, his destiny was c...