1990
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The deeply affecting, magical poems of `Life Sentence' come to us through vivid translations made by twenty poets, including such distinguished British and American poets as Fleur Adcock, Dana Gioia, Carolyn Kizer, William Jay Smith and Richard Wilbur. Nina Cassian had been a leading literary figure in Romania for more than 40 years when, during a visit to New York in 1985, her satires of the Ceausescu regime were discovered copied into a friend's diary. The friend was tortured to death, while Cassian's house was ransacked by the authorities and her publications banned.
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Author
Nina Cassian
Author · 7 books
Nina Cassian (pen name of Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru) was a Romanian poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic. She spent the first sixty years of her life in Romania until she moved to the United States in 1985 for a teaching job. A few years later Cassian was granted permanent asylum and New York City became her home for the rest of her life. Much of her work was published both in Romanian and in English.
