Magda Isanos (17 April 1916 – 17 November 1944) was a

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n poet.

Biography

Born in

Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the second largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, it has traditionally ...

, her parents were Mihail Isanos and his wife Elisabeta (née Bălan), doctors at the Costiugeni psychiatric hospital near

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. Elisabeta was the sister of

Elena Alistar Elena Alistar-Romanescu (1 June 1873 – 1955) was a Bessarabian physician and politician who was part of Sfatul Țării from Bessarabia. She was the aunt of poet Magda Isanos. Biography Alistar was born on 1 June 1873 in Vasylivka, Bolhrad R ...

.Irina Nechit, ''Femeia în labirintul istoriei: istoria verbală'', p. 35. Chișinău: Editura Știința, 2003. After graduating from the Diocesan High School in Chișinău, Magda entered the law faculty of the

University of Iași The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mih ...

in 1934. While there, she was affiliated with left-wing student societies. After graduating, Isanos briefly worked as a lawyer in Iași. She was married to the writer . Isanos made her published debut in 1932, in ''Licurici'' magazine. Her work appeared in ''Însemnări ieșene'', ''Iașul'', ''Jurnalul literar'', '' Viața Basarabiei'', ''Pagini basarabene'', ''Vremea'', ''Cuget moldovenesc'', ''

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'' and ''

Viața Românească ''Viața Românească'' (, "The Romanian Life") is a monthly literary magazine published in Romania. Formerly the platform of the left-wing traditionalist trend known as poporanism, it is now one of the Writers' Union of Romania's main venues. Th ...

''. She died in

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at age 28 after a long illness and period of awaiting the end. Obsessively returning to the theme of death, her grave, musical verses (''Poezii'', 1943) hover between despair and euphoria. Her lyric verses were collected into posthumous anthologies: ''Țara luminii'' (1946), ''Poezii'' (1947), ''Versuri'' (1955), ''Versuri'' (1964), ''Poezii'' (1974). She was awarded the debut prize of Editura Fundației Regale pentru Literatură și Artă for her four-act drama ''Focurile''. Written in collaboration with her husband, the play was published posthumously in 1945.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 791. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

References

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