Florența Albu (December 1, 1934 – February 3, 2000) was a

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n poet.

Biography

She was born in Floroaica,

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. She studied at the Gheorghe Șincai High School in

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from 1948 to 1952, and then pursued her studies at the Faculty of Philology of the

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, from 1952 to 1957. She worked at the newspaper Scînteia tineretului from 1963 to 1965; and the journal

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from 1965 to 1995. Albu died in

at Fundeni Hospital in 2000, and was buried in

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Works

*''Tânărul scriitor'' (1954) *''Fără popas'', Editura pentru literatură, 1961 *''Măşti de priveghi'' (1968) *''Arborele vieții'' (1971) *''Petrecere cu iarbă'' (1973) *''Elegii'' (1973) *''65 poeme'' (1978) *''Kilometrul unu în cer'' (1988) *"Himera nisipurilor, Roata lumii, Euri posibile". ''Streiflicht – Eine Auswahl zeitgenössischer rumänischer Lyrik'' (81 rumänische Autoren) *"Lumina piezișă", translated Christian W. Schenk, Dionysos Verlag 1994,

English translations

"LEFT–RIGHT...("STANG–DREPT…")"
''Centre for Romanian Studies'', 11 July 2003
"Bucharest Carol"
''Transcript Review'', Vol 7

Non-fiction

*''Câmpia soarelui'' 1962

References

1934 births 2000 deaths People from Călărași County Romanian women poets University of Bucharest alumni 20th-century Romanian women writers 20th-century Romanian poets {{Romania-poet-stub