Ion Gorun (pen name of Alexandru I. Hodoș; December 30, 1863–March 30, 1928) was an Imperial Austrian-born

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n prose writer, poet and translator.

Biography

Born in Roșia, Sibiu County, his parents were Iosif Hodoș and his wife Ana (''née'' Balint). His brothers Enea and

Nerva Nerva (; originally Marcus Cocceius Nerva; 8 November 30 – 27 January 98) was Roman emperor from 96 to 98. Nerva became emperor when aged almost 66, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the succeeding rulers of the Flavian dy ...

were both writers, as was his wife

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; his uncle was

Alexandru Papiu Ilarian Alexandru Papiu-Ilarian (27 September 1827 – ) was a Romanian revolutionary, lawyer and historian. Papiu Ilarian was born in Bezded ( hu, Bezdédtelek), Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Gârbou, Romania) on 27 September 1827. His father wa ...

. He attended high school at Brașov and

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between 1876 and 1880. Subsequently crossing into the Romanian Old Kingdom, he entered the medical faculty of the University of Bucharest, taking classes from 1881 to 1883 before withdrawing and enrolling in the literature faculty, where he graduated in 1888, and the law faculty, which he did not complete. He became an editor for the National Liberal Party-affiliated magazine ''Națiunea'' and was editing secretary for ''Vieața'' (1893-1894) and ''Povestea vorbei'' (1896-1897). He headed ''Viața nouă'' magazine in 1898, and edited the Arad-based ''Românul''. He edited ''Pagini literare'' magazine from 1899 to 1900; together with Artur Stavri, edited ''Viața literară și artistică'' (1906-1908); with George Coșbuc, ''Revista noastră'', briefly in 1907; with Constanța Hodoș, ''Astra'' (1915-1918) and ''Războiul popoarelor'' (1914-1916). His work appeared in ''

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'', ''Vatra'' and ''Fântâna Blanduziei''. His first published verses appeared in 1889, in ''

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'', under the pen name Castor; his first newspaper work ran in ''Poporul''; his first book was the 1901 poetry collection ''Câteva versuri''. His prose books were ''Alb și negru'' (1902), ''Robinson în Țara Românească'' (1904), ''Lume necăjită'' (1911) and ''Obraze și măști'' (1922). He authored a monograph about Alexandru Vlahuță. Authors he translated include

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, August Strindberg,

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and

Karl May Karl Friedrich May ( , ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his 19th century novels of fictitious travels and adventures, set in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main pro ...

; he also gave a Romanian version of

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...

's " Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch". In 1926, he was awarded the national prize for prose.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 679. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. ISBN 973-697-758-7

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorun, Ion 1863 births 1928 deaths People from Sibiu County Romanian Austro-Hungarians Austro-Hungarian emigrants to Romania University of Bucharest alumni Romanian male short story writers Romanian short story writers Romanian poets Romanian translators Romanian newspaper editors Romanian magazine editors 20th-century translators 20th-century short story writers 20th-century Romanian male writers