Ovidiu Cotruș

Ovidiu Cotruș (February 24, 1926–September 12, 1977) was a Romanian essayist and literary critic.

Early life Born in Oradea, his parents were Sabin Cotruș, a geography teacher, and his wife Claudia (née Popa); his uncle was Aron Cotruș. He studied at the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Cluj from 1944 to 1948.

Cotruș' contributions also appeared in Secolul 20, Luceafărul, and Orizont. His first book, the monograph Opera lui Mateiu I. Caragiale, was published posthumously in 1977. It was followed in 1983 by Meditații critice, a book of studies about Romanian and foreign authors. He took part in several cultural events in Yugoslavia, Spain, Canada, and France; in the latter country, he attended a ten-day festival in 1969 at the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, dedicated to Georges Bernanos. While engaged in these meetings, he published commentaries and reports in magazines abroad. During his last years, he spent time preparing an anthology and collection of interviews with André Malraux, Jean Grosjean, Pierre Emmanuel, Georges Poulet, , Eugenio Coșeriu, , and .