Nushi Tulliu (April 23, 1872–April 8, 1941; ro, Nuși Tulliu) was an Aromanian poet and prose writer. He was born into an Aromanian family in

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, a village that formed part of the

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's Manastir Vilayet and is now in Greece. He began school in Kleisoura, followed by the Romanian high school in

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. Tulliu then enrolled in the literature faculty at the

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in the

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, where he took a degree in Romanian history and language. He attended the law faculty for two years, but did not graduate. In 1905, he was sent to

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in order to prepare his doctorate in history. While still a student, he taught at the Romanian gymnasium in

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, and then in

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. From 1929 until his retirement in 1937, he was a teacher in

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. From 1908 to 1912, he was a school inspector in Macedonia. Tulliu's first published work was an 1894 article in the Bucharest magazine ''Peninsula balcanică''. He subsequently contributed to other Romanian periodicals, including ''Albumul macedo-român'', ''Cele trei Crișuri'', ''Conservatorul'', ''Dunărea'', ''Flamura'', ''Grai bun'', ''Lilicea Pindului'', ''Ordinea'', ''Propilee literare'', ''Românii de la Pind'', ''Răsăritul'', ''Timpul nou'', ''Țara noastră'' and ''

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''. From November 1898 to September 1899, he published ''Pindul'' using his own funds; the magazine featured poems and prose in the Aromanian language. He headed Bucharest's ''Ecoul Macedoniei'' newspaper, and there published ''Murmintî fîră cruți'' (1903), the only Aromanian-language novel published in Romania.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 737. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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