Nora Iuga

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

Nora Iuga
Born (1931-01-04) January 4, 1931
Bucharest, Romania
OccupationAuthor
NationalityRomanian
Notable awardsFriedrich-Gundolf-Preis

Iuga was born in Bucharest, Romania on 4 January 1931.[1] As well as being a writer, Iuga has also worked as a journalist, foreign language assistant, and editor.[2]

Her first collection of poems was published in 1968 and was called Vina nu e a mea (It Is Not My Fault).[2] She was censored between 1971 and 1978 by the communist government in Romania[3] after the publication of her second collection off poems, Captivitatea cercului (Trapped in a Circle).[2]

The first English translation of her work, a collection of poems called The Hunchbacks’ Bus, was published in 2016.[4] Several of her works have also been translated into German.[5] English translations of her work were included in the anthology Something is still present and isn't, of what's gone.[6]

She was awarded with a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2003 and won the Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis in 2007.[2]

References
  1. "Library of Congress - Nora Iuga". id.loc.gov.
  2. "Berliner Künstlerprogramm | Biography: Iuga, Nora". www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  3. "Nora Iuga". Modern Poetry in Translation. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  4. "The Hunchbacks' Bus by Nora Iuga". World Literature Today. 26 April 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  5. Brockmann, Agnieszka; Lebedewa, Jekatherina; Smyshliaeva, Maria; Żyֹtyniec, Rafał (2012). Kulturelle Grenzgänge: Festschrift für Christa Ebert zum 65. Geburtstag (in German). Frank & Timme GmbH. p. 401. ISBN 9783865963239.
  6. "Something is still present and isn't, of what's gone". researchgate. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
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