Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (March 9 1907, Bucharest - April 22 1986, Chicago, Illinois) was a Romanian historian of religions and writer (fantasy and autobiographical). He commanded eight languages fluently (Romanian, French, German, Italian, English, Hebrew, Persian and Sanskrit).

Selected fiction

• Bengal Nights. Translated by Catherine Spencer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Originally published in Romanian as Maitreyi, 1933.
• The Old Man and The Bureaucrats. Translated by Mary Park Stevenson. University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. Originally published in Romanian as Pe strada Mântuleasa, 1968.