Octavian Paler

Octavian Paler ( or ; 2 July 1926 – 7 May 2007) was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.

Education Paler was born on 2 July 1926 in Lisa, Brașov County. He was educated at Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest. In the summer of 1944, one week before graduating the 7th grade, he was forced to leave the school because of an argument with his uncle and Spiru Haret's school headmaster George Șerban. Octavian Paler moved on to Radu Negru High School in Făgăraș, where he studied literature for his final examination. with magna cum laude and outstanding results in philosophy, Latin and Greek. He sat the final examination in Sibiu in the same year. Paler went on to study Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest between 1945 and 1949.

Conversations with Octavian Paler was published by Daniel Cristea-Enache days after his death. In his memory, a street in Făgăraș, the school in his native village, Lisa, and the municipal library in Făgăraș bear his name.