Nora Iuga (born 4 January 1931) is a Romanian poet, writer and translator. Iuga was born in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

, Romania on 4 January 1931. As well as being a writer, Iuga has also worked as a journalist, foreign language assistant, and editor. Her first collection of poems was published in 1968 and was called ''Vina nu e a mea'' (''It Is Not My Fault''). She was censored between 1971 and 1978 by the communist government in Romania after the publication of her second collection off poems, ''Captivitatea cercului'' (''Trapped in a Circle''). The first English translation of her work, a collection of poems called ''The Hunchbacks’ Bus'', was published in 2016. Several of her works have also been translated into German. English translations of her work were included in the anthology ''Something is still present and isn't, of what's gone''. She was awarded with a grant from the

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in 2003 and won the

Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis is a literary prize of Germany. It was established by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in 1964 to promote German culture outwith Germany. The award is named after the Germanist Friedrich Gundolf. The award ...

in 2007.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Iuga, Nora 1931 births Living people Romanian women poets Romanian women novelists 20th-century Romanian women writers 21st-century Romanian women writers Writers from Bucharest