Guest Writer : a few Moldovan writers by Ala Rosca and her students. 2nd part.

Ana Blandiana (born 25 March 1942, in Timișoara) is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She is considered one of the famous contemporary Romanian authors. In October 2017, she was announced as The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry's twelfth recipient of their Lifetime Recognition Award. Her editorial debut took place in 1964 with the booklet of poems Persoana întâia plural ("First Person Plural"), with a Foreword written by Nicolae Manolescu. She became known for her Calcâiul vulnerabil ("Achilles' Heel", 1966) and A treia taină ("The Third Secret", 1969). In 1966, Blandiana appeared for the first time at the International Poem Contest (in Lahti, Finland). In 1987 she published the book Orașe de silabe ("City of syllables") where she writes about all the countries and cities of the world where she travelled: over 100. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, she entered political life, campaigning for the removal of the communist legacy from the administrative office, as well as for an open society. She left literary work in the background, although she did publish Arhitectura valurilor ("Waves' Architecture", 1990), 100 de poeme ("100 Poems", 1991), and Sertarul cu aplauze ("The Drawer of Applause", prose, 1992). 

Leonida Lari (26 October 1949 – 11 December 2011) was a Moldovan poet, journalist, and politician from the Republic of Moldova who advocated for the reunion of Bessarabia with Romania. She published 24 volumes of poetry and prose and was a prolific translator of key works from world literature into Romanian. 

Some of her most notable works include: Marele vânt (“The Great Wind”, 1980), Mitul trandafirului (“The Myth Of The Rose”, 1985), Scoica solară (“Stellar Shell”,1987), Insula de repaos (“The Island Of Rest”, 1988), Lumina graitoare (“The Talking Light”, 1989), Dulcele foc (“Sweet Fire”, 1989),  Anul 1989 (“Year 1989”, 1990),  Lira şi păianjenul (“The Lyre And The Spider”, 1991).

Nora Iuga (born 4 January 1931) is a Romanian poet, writer, and translator. Iuga was born in Bucharest, 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 of 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 a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2003 and won the Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis in 2007. 

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