Journalism from Behind Bars
Many of the world’s writers were also journalists. They often worked in the editorial board of significant newspapers and magazines and wrote polemical commentaries, on issues that went beyond the literary world. Political journalism was frequently practiced fiercely, even if it brought reprisals from the part of the state. Mihai Eminescu was under investigation by attorneys from Budapest while he was studying in Vienna, Octavian Goga was sentenced to prison in Hungary, Ioan Slavici was also jailed, first by the Hungarian authorities, and then by the Romanian ones, and Tudor Arghezi was put behind bars twice in Romania. All these sentences were applied to writers because of their work as journalists.
Keywords: Writer, journalists, Eminescu, Slavici, Goga, Arghezi, reprisal, prison, authority