Nina Cassian (1924–2014)
Autore di Life Sentence: Selected Poems
Sull'Autore
Nina Cassian was born in Galati, Romania on November 27, 1924. Her first poetry collection, Scale 1:1 was published in 1947, but was badly received by the critics because it ran against the Socialist grain of the time. She then wrote several books that were flattering to the regime. In 1985, the mostra altro Securitate, the Communist-era secret police, found her critical poems, which satirized the Communist regime, in the diary of her friend Gheorghe Ursu. The authorities considered the poems to be inflammatory and Cassian, then visiting the United States, was granted asylum. She wrote over 50 collections of poetry during her lifetime including Take My Word for It, Continuum, and C'è Modo e Modo di Sparire. She also wrote children's books and translated the works of William Shakespeare, Moliere, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan. Her work appeared in several publications including The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. She died of a heart attack on April 14, 2014 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Nina Cassian
Loto Poeme 2 copie
Destinele paralele. La scara 1/1 2 copie
Sîngele 2 copie
Versuri 1 copia
Memoria ca zestre 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 917 copie
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Collaboratore — 32 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Cassian, Renée Annie
- Altri nomi
- Katz, Renée Annie (birth)
- Data di nascita
- 1924-11-27
- Data di morte
- 2014-04-14
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Romania (birth)
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Galati, Romania
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Braşov, Romania
Bucharest, Romania - Istruzione
- University of Bucharest
- Attività lavorative
- poet
translator
film critic
journalist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fulbright Fellowship
- Breve biografia
- Nina Cassian was born Renée Annie Katz to a Jewish family in Galati, Romania. Her father was a noted translator of German and English writers, including Edgar Allan Poe. When she was 11 years old, her family settled in Bucharest and she attended schools in the Jewish ghetto there. As a teenager, she joined a Communist youth organization. She trained as a pianist from an early age and studied painting, literature and composition at the University of Bucharest. She took the pen name Nina Cassian and published her first poem in the daily România liberă in 1945, and her first poetry collection in 1947. She went on to become a prominent poet, writer and translator in Romania and also was well known in the West. Her first husband was Vladimir Colin, a poet; they divorced after six years. She remarried to Alexandru Stefanescu, a writer and editor who died in 1984. In 1985, she won a Fulbright fellowship that enabled her to come to New York, where she was a visiting professor of writing at New York University.
During this time, a Romanian friend and opponent of the dictator Ceausescu's government was arrested and tortured to death by the state secret police. Several unpublished poems by Ms. Cassian satirizing the government were found among his papers. She could not return home and was granted asylum in the USA. She contributed poems in English and in translation to The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and other magazines, and published the collections Life Sentence (1990) and Take My Word for It (1998) In 1998, she married as her third husband Maurice Edwards, former artistic director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
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