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Romanian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Romania or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Gabriela Adameșteanu (born 1942), novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, translator * Florența Albu (1934–2000), poet B *Elena Bacaloglu (1878–1947), journalist, critic, novelist, fascist militant * Maria Baciu (born 1942), poet, novelist, children's writer, critic * Maria Baiulescu (1860–1941), writer, women's rights activist *Zsófia Balla (born 1949) prominent Romanian-born Hungarian poet, essayist *Carmen-Francesca Banciu (born 1955), novelist *Linda Maria Baros (born 1981), Romanian-born highly acclaimed French-language poet, translator, critic *Marthe Bibesco (1886–1973), novelist, short story writer, essayist, writing in French *Adriana Bittel (born 1946), poet, critic *Ana Blandiana (born 1942), poet, essayist, political figure * Calypso Botez (1880–1933), writer, women's rights activist * Rodica Bretin (born 1958), fantasy nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly Temperate climate, temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Cocea
Sofia Cocea (1839–1861), also known under her married name as Sofia Chrisoscoleu or as Sofia Hrisoscoleu, was a Moldavian, later Romanian essayist, journalist and poet. Biography Born in Fălticeni, she was from a modest family of estate managers. Ștefania Gáll Mihăilescu, ''Din istoria feminismului românesc: antologie de texte (1838–1929)'', p.69. Polirom, 2002, At age thirteen in 1852, she translated a novel by Madame de Genlis from French into Romanian, under the title ''Palmira și Flaminia sau secretul'' ("Palmira and Flaminia or the Secret"), as well as the play ''Maria sau mustrările de cuget ale unei mame'' ("Maria or a Mother's Qualms of Conscience"). Gheorghe Asachi, then working a censor, considered the latter immoral and tried unsuccessfully to have it banned. When she was seventeen, she applied for a grant to study abroad but was denied. She studied at Iași and at Târgu Neamț, becoming a schoolteacher in the latter town and in Vaslui in 1857, later founding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anneli Ute Gabanyi
Anneli Ute Gabanyi (born October 18, 1942) is a German political scientist, literary critic, journalist, and philologist of Romanian background, especially known for her research on the society and culture of the Cold War period in Romania and the Romanian Revolution of 1989. A former main analyst for Südost-Institut in Munich, she is an associate researcher for the German Institute for International and Security Issues (''Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik'') in Berlin.Profile at Polirom.ro Biography Born in to a |
Mária Földes
Mária Földes (5 September 1925 – 21 August 1976) was a Hungarians, Hungarian-Romanians, Romanian playwright. After surviving several Nazi concentration camps during 1944-1945 in World War II, including Auschwitz, she returned to Romania, where she studied drama and theater arts. Writing several plays in Hungarian, she is also known for her memoir, ''The Stroll (memoir), The Stroll'' (1974), published in Hungarian language, Hungarian and in Hebrew (1975). Early life and education Mária Földes was born to a Jewish Hungarian family in Arad, Romania on 5 September 1925. She grew up speaking Hungarian language, Hungarian, Romanian language, Romanian, and German language, German. From the age of ten, she studied at the Notre Dame de Sion nunnery in Satu Mare, where she studied in French. In 1940, she was forced to enlist in the newly established Jewish gymnasium in Cluj due to the ''numerus clausus'' against Jewish students in all other schools. In May 1944, after graduating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Firan
Carmen Firan (born 29 November 1958, Craiova) is a poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, and playwright, resident in New York City. She has published twenty books of poetry, novels, essays and short stories. Her writings appear in translation in many literary magazines and in various anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, U K, and the U.S. Her recent books and publications in the United States include: ''Interviews and Encounters. Carmen Firan in dialogue and poetry with Nina Cassian'' (Sheep Meadow Press), ''Inferno'', ''Rock and Dew'' (Sheep Meadow Press), ''Words and Flesh'' (Talisman Publishers), ''The Second Life'' (Columbia University Press), ''The Farce'' (Spuyten Duyvil Press), ''In The Most Beautiful Life'' (Umbrage Editions), and ''The First Moment After Death'' (Writers Club Press). She is a member of PEN American Center and the Poetry Society of America and serves on the editorial board of the international magazine''Interpoez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Farago
Elena Farago (born Elena Paximade; 29 March 1878–3 January 1954) was a Romanian poet and children's author. She also translated works by Ibsen, Nietzsche, Maeterlinck and numerous others into Romanian. Early life and education Born in Bârlad, her parents were Francisc Paximade, who came from Tenedos and established a cereal export business at Galați, and Anastasia (''née'' Thomaide); the two married in 1873. On her father's side, she descended from an old and noble Greek family; through her mother, she was of Greek, Turkish and Romanian origin. Orphaned at a young age, she was raised in the home of ''Junimist'' George Panu and briefly with Ion Luca Caragiale, through whom she came to know Alexandru Vlahuță and other contemporary writers. Between 1884 and 1890, she had an incomplete education at the Varlaam and Drouhet boarding schools in her native town. Through her husband, the bank clerk Francisc Farago, she was drawn into socialist circles, attending lectures by Ioan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Of Wied
Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise of Wied (29 December 18432 March 1916) was the first queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I from 15 March 1881 to 27 September 1914. She had been the princess consort of Romania since her marriage to then-Prince Carol on 15 November 1869. Elisabeth was born into a German noble family. She was briefly considered as a potential bride for the future British king Edward VII, but Edward rejected her. Elisabeth married Prince Carol of Romania in 1869. Their only child, Princess Maria, died aged three in 1874, and Elisabeth never fully recovered from the loss of her daughter. When Romania became a kingdom in 1881, Elisabeth became queen, and she was crowned together with Carol that same year. Elisabeth was a prolific writer under the name Carmen Sylva. Family and early life Born at Castle Monrepos in Neuwied, she was the daughter of Hermann, Prince of Wied, and his wife Princess Marie of Nassau. Elisabeth had artistic leanings; her childhood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga
Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga (August 20, 1920 – May 5, 2006) was a Romanian comparatist and essayist. A native of the national capital Bucharest, she was educated at its main university, going on to become a professor there. Together with a focus on interdisciplinary studies, she was noted for devoting several studies to Mihai Eminescu. Meanwhile, Dumitrescu was a dignitary of the Romanian Communist Party. Following the Romanian Revolution, after several years spent in Rome, she retired to a monastery. Biography Education and academic career Born in Bucharest, her parents were Nicolae Dumitrescu, a jurist, and his wife Maria (''née'' Apostol). In her native city, she attended primary school (1927–1931) and the Central School for Girls (1931–1939). An early lover of music, she was unable to pursue a career in that field due to medical reasons. Enrolling in the University of Bucharest, she studied law from 1939 to 1943 and literature from 1944 to 1948, and earned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucura Dumbravă
Bucura Dumbravă, pen name of Ștefania "Fanny" Szekulics,Șerban Cioculescu, ''Caragialiana'', Editura Eminescu, Bucharest, 1974, p.351. Szekulicz Constantina Raveca Buleu"Bucura Dumbravă și teozofia" in ''Contemporanul'', Nr. 7/2012 or Seculici (December 28, 1868 – January 26, 1926), was a Hungarian-born Romanian genre novelist, cultural promoter, hiker and Theosophist. Her literary work, mainly written in German, covers romantic stories about the legendary feats of hajduk heroes. They brought her commercial success in both German-speaking Europe and Romania, and were prefaced by Queen-consort Elisabeth of Wied. Dumbravă promoted many causes, and was involved with several cultural projects, but is mainly remembered for her activity in promoting tourism and environmentalism in Romania. She was an avid traveler and mountaineer, who established some of the country's first hiking clubs. Her travel writing remains a standard in Romanian literature, even though her fiction wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Djionat
Elena Djionat (1888-fl. 1936), was a Romanian educator, journalist, suffragist and women's rights activist. She was co-founder and leader of the Organizatja Reuniunii Femeilor Basaribene (Organization of Bessarabian Women) in 1928-1935. Life Djionat was born in the Russian Empire and educated at the University of Odessa before becoming a teacher at the Princess Elena Primary School in Chisnau, and principal there in 1919-1935. She became involved in feminist work in 1907, but focused more on unification with Romania until Bessarabia Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Be ... became a part of Romania in 1919, after which she engaged in women's rights issue in response to the neglect of Romania to give women the right to vote. The women's rights movement was split in the 1930s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cella Delavrancea
Cella Delavrancea (15 December 1887 – 9 August 1991) was a Romanian pianist, writer and teacher of piano, eldest daughter of writer Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, sister of architect Henrieta Delavrancea-Gibory, Niculina Delavrancea and "Bebs" Delavrancea, member of the circle of Eugen Lovinescu. She was married to diplomat Viorel Tilea during World War I (divorced), to Aristide Blank (divorced), and to Philippe Lahovary, and was one of the intimate friends of Queen Marie of Romania. She's also known for her romantic relationship with Nae Ionescu, Romanian logician and politician, spiritual mentor of the "Eliade generation". Biography Daughter of writer Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea and Maria Lupașcu, she studied piano first with her mother, then at the Conservatories of Bucharest and Paris. She was considered by Ion Luca Caragiale, after hearing her playing a waltz by Chopin, at 14 years old, in Vienna, "a wonder child, Cella Delavrancea, who tames a wild monster: the Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriella Csire
Gabriella Csire (born 21 April 1938, Ocna Mureș) is a Romanian writer and children's literature author. Life Born into an ethnic Hungarian family, at the age of two she moved with her parents to Cluj (''Kolozsvár''), where she graduated from high school (1954). Later she graduated from the former Bolyai University (Babeș-Bolyai University) (1959), at the departament of Hungarian Language and Literature. In 1959 she moved to Bucharest, where she was a redactor at '' Irodalmi Könyvkiadó'' (National Publishing for Literature), then at journals/newspapers, most of them being youth magazines: '' Tanügyi Újság'', '' Előre'' and '' Jóbarát'', and '' Cimbora'' between 1990 and 1992, where she worked as an editor in chief. She wrote articles, short stories, fairy tales and fairy novels. She is member of the ''Writers' Union of Romania''. Published books * Pikk-pakk lámpa. Turpi meséi (ill: Szabó Erzsébet), 2015. * Görög regevilág, 2014. * Erdélyi mondák és ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
