His most popular book is the novel Viața pe un peron (Life on a Station Platform, 1981).In 1633, at the age of 70, Galileo Galilei was brought before the Inquisition where he formally recanted his views of the solar system and was placed under house arrest near Florence. He has also published with Cotidianul and Ziua, and has made appearances on public TV discussing politics and morality.

After 1989, Octavian Paler received public appreciation for his journalistic work and political activism and was appointed as the chief editor of România Liberă. He worked as a Senior Editor at the influential newspaper România Liberă from 1970 to 1983. The majority of his career has developed during the Communist Regime, as the vice-president of the Romanian Radio and TV Broadcasting committee from 1965 to 1970, and the president of the Romanian Journalists Council in 1976. Octavian Paler, Viața pe un peron (1981 edition, photo credit: Anticariatul de noapte) During his last years he was an intense critic of Romanian politicians and politics. After the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1989, Octavian Paler continued his anti-communist activity as a founding member of the Group for Social Dialogue (Grupul de Dialog Social), together with Ana Blandiana and Gabriel Liiceanu amongst others. He was not allowed to leave his home and suffered restrictions in his artistic work. However, he was persecuted by the Romanian secret service agency, the Securitate, because of his pro-western views and criticism of Romanian Communist Party, including Nicolae Ceauşescu. Octavian Paler was a substitute member in the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party from 1974 to 1979, and a member of the Great National Assembly for the Vaslui constituency, from 1980 to 1985. He was buried with military honours in the Sfânta Vineri cemetery. He died of a heart attack on at the age of 80.

Octavian Paler went on to study Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest. He sat the final examination in Sibiu in the same year.

He graduated in 1945 with magna cum laude and outstanding results in philosophy, Latin and Greek. Octavian Paler moved on to Radu Negru High School in Făgăraş, where he studied literature for his final examination. In the summer of 1944, just one week before graduating the 7th grade, he was forced to leave the school because of an argument with his uncle and Spiru Haret's school head master – George Șerban.

He was educated at Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest. Octavian Paler was born in Lisa, Braşov County. Octavian Paler (Romanian pronunciation: or J– May 7, 2007) was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.

Viața pe un peron by Octavian Paler