Marius Oprea


Marius Oprea is a Romanian historian, poet and essayist.
Born in Târgovişte, he studied history at the University of Bucharest and he has a PhD with a thesis on the role and evolution of the Communist-era secret police, the Securitate between 1948 and 1964. Oprea currently works as a journalist and researcher at the Romanian Institute of Recent History. He also serves as the president of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
He made his debut as a poet in the collective volume Pauza de respiraţie, together with Simona Popescu, Caius Dobrescu, and Andrei Bodiu.
Marius Oprea lives with his family in Braşov.

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