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Romulus Dianu (born Romulus Dima; March 22, 1905–August 25, 1975) was a prose writer, journalist and translator.
Dianu then entered the diplomatic field, working as Nicolae Titulescu's secretary for a decade and receiving accreditation from the League of Nations. During World War II, he wrote regularly for the official press. Following the war and the onset of a Romanian Communist Party-led government, he was sent to prison for his journalistic activity. After being released, he worked as a day laborer, woodcutter and book peddler. Found by Ion Caraion selling books in a passageway, he was able to retire and secure a pension from the Romanian Writers' Union upon the latter's proposal. He wrote three novels during the last five years of his life. Emil Manu, "Romulus Dianu - Versuri inedite", in Romania Literară, nr. 50/2001 He translated Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bertolt Brecht and Georges Duhamel.Aurel Sasu (ed.), Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, vol. I, p. 487. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.
On 8 May 1995, after the fall of Communism, 10 of the sentences pronounced during the Post-World War II Romanian war crime trials were overturned by the Supreme Court of Justice. They were part of the 14 war criminals convicted in the "Journalists' trial" of 1945. Attorney General Vasile Manea Drăgulin presented the convictions decided upon in 1945 as illegal, believing the interpretation of the evidence to have been “retroactive, truncated, and tendentious”, therefore amounting to a “conviction decision, whose content is a synthesis of vehement criticism of their activity, to which we forcefully ascribed the character of war crimes”. Dianu was among the 10 who were rehabilitated.Andrei Muraru, "Elie Wiesel” Institute`s Journal, 2020, Outrageous Rehabilitations: Justice and Memory in the Attempts to Restore the War Criminals’ Remembrance in Post-Holocaust Romania. The Recent Case of General Nicolae Macici (I) in Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări / Holocaust. Study and Research, vol. XII, issue 1(13), pp. 345-348Alexandru Florian, Indiana University Press, Jan 24, 2018, Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania, pp. 73, 79 and 93-94
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