Ion Vinea (born
Ioan Eugen Iovanaki, sometimes
Iovanache; April 17, 1895 – July 6, 1964) was a
Romanian poet, novelist, journalist, literary theorist, and political figure. He became active on the
modernist scene during his teens, his poetic work always indebted to the
Symbolist movement, and first founded, with
Tristan Tzara and
Marcel Janco, the review
Simbolul. The more conservative Vinea drifted apart from them as they rose to international fame with the
Dada artistic experiment, being instead affiliated with left-wing counterculture in
World War I Romania. With
N. D. Cocea, Vinea edited the socialist
Chemarea, but returned to the international avant-garde in 1923–1924, an affiliate of
Constructivism,
Futurism, and, marginally,
Surrealism.