Flacăra

{{other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Flacăra | image_file = E. Iarovici, A. Mihailopol - Baritone Șerban Tassian as John the Terrible, Prince of Moldavia (Cover of Flacăra, Issue 11, June 1956).png | image_size = 250px | image_caption = Cover of June 1956, with baritone [[Șerban Tassian]] as [[John III the Terrible]] | editor = | editor_title = | category = [[Literary magazine]] | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | company = | publisher = | founder = [[Constantin Banu]] | firstdate = {{start date and age|df=y|1911|10|22}} | country = [[Romania]] | based = [[Bucharest]] | language = [[Romanian language|Romanian]] | website = [http://revistaflacara.ro ''Flacăra''] | issn = }}

'''''Flacăra''''' ([[Romanian language|Romanian]] for "The Flame") is a weekly literary magazine published in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]].

==History and profile== ''Flacăra'' was started in 1911.<ref name="csee">{{cite book|title=Central and South-Eastern Europe 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5J_gAU8c9NIC&pg=PA507|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-186-5|page=509}}</ref> The first issue was published on 22 October 1911.<ref name=adh/> The founder was [[Constantin Banu]] and the magazine covers the articles on the literary work by Romanian writers.<ref name=adh/> The headquarters is in Bucharest.<ref name=csee/> During the [[Ceauşescu]] era it was a [[communist]] publication, and supported the isolation of Romania from [[Europe]] together with other magazines.<ref>{{cite book|author=Pia Brînzeu|title=Corridors of Mirrors: The Spirit of Europe in Contemporary British and Romanian Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NBMU7HonvrwC&pg=PA65|year=2000|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-1747-5|page=65}}</ref>

Following the [[Romanian Revolution]] of December 1989 [[George Arion]] was elected as the [[editor-in-chief]] of the magazine.<ref>{{cite web|title=George Arion|url=http://www.profusion.org.uk/topic/6-george-arion-romanian-crime-fiction-writer-attack-in-the-library.aspx|work=Profusion|access-date=17 January 2015}}</ref>

''Flacăra'' launched its website in 2010.<ref name=adh>{{cite news|author=Cristina Blanaru|title=99 yo Romanian Flacara Magazine finally launched a website|url=http://www.adhugger.net/2010/08/12/99-yo-romanian-flacara-magazine-finally-launched-a-website/|access-date=17 January 2015|work=Ad Hugger|date=12 August 2010}}</ref>

==See also== * [[List of magazines in Romania]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://revistaflacara.ro Official website]

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