History
The magazine was established in 1990, one year after the Romanian Revolution toppled the communist regime. According to the Moldovan magazine Revista Sud-Est, it met with financial difficulties during several periods of its existence, and, in 2004, briefly closed down.
Apostrof has published dossiers on prominent literary figures who are associated with Transylvania and whose work, in many cases, was not accessible to the public under communism. These include poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga, literary critics Mircea Zaciu, Ion Negoițescu and Nicolae Balotă, and dramatist Ion Desideriu Sârbu. According to Revista Sud-Est: "Natives of this area, are also resounding names that have coverage throughout Romanian literature."
In June 2005, it was also involved in a public awareness campaign over construction work carried out in Lancrăm, which threatened to harm a historical site and, it argued, went against Lucian Blaga's last wish (by disrupting the access from Blaga's grave to the Red Ravines area).
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