Filip Brunea-Fox

F. Brunea-Fox (born Filip Brauner; January 18, 1898 – June 12, 1977) was a Romanian reporter, journalist and translator.

Born into a Jewish family in Roman, his parents were Simcha Brauner and Leia (née Gelbert). He attended high school in Bucharest, followed by one year at the University of Bucharest. He made his debut in Versuri și proză magazine in 1915, writing under the pseudonym Pan. He wrote surrealist poems and sketches for unu and Integral, and his work also appeared in Absolutio, Arena, Zări senine, 75 H. P., Punct, Adam, Reporter, Mântuirea, Izbânda, Jurnalul de dimineață, România Liberă, Scînteia, Viața Românească, Flacăra, Magazinul, Viața militară, Contemporanul, România Literară, Veac nou, Presa noastră, La Roumanie d’aujourd’hui and Îndrumătorul cultural. He was a correspondent for the Buenos Airesbased Lasso and for a Japanese newspaper. He also published Porturi dunărene (1957) and Hârca piratului (1965). He helped shape a new style of literary reporting, which influenced the young Geo Bogza, as well as several writers who came to prominence in the 1970s. Writers whom he translated into Romanian include Paul Louis Courier, Pierre Daninos, Lion Feuchtwanger, Robert Louis Stevenson and Gabriel Chevallier. He died in Bucharest.