Sanda Movilă, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sanda Movilă

Romanian poet and novelist

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1900

Place of Birth: Arges, Romania

Date of Death: 13-Sep-1970

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Sanda Movilă

  • Sanda Movila (pen name of Maria Ionescu-Aderca; January 7, 1900–September 13, 1970) was a Romanian poet and novelist. Born in Cerbu, Arge? County, her parents were Ion Ionescu, a small-scale tradesman, and his wife Maria (née Niculescu).
  • She attended middle and high school in Pite?ti from 1911 to 1919.
  • In 1924, she graduated from the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest, with a major in French.
  • Subsequently, she was hired as a civil servant at the Ministry of Public Instruction.
  • She was married to the writer Felix Aderca.Her literary debut came in 1916, in Universul newspaper, with the anti-World War I poem "8 octombrie".
  • She attracted notice from Eugen Lovinescu, to whom she owed both her pseudonym and her work being published in Sburatorul from 1921.
  • Her first prose writing, Pata de umbra, appeared in Sburatorul literar in 1922; the same literary magazine also ran her pieces Via?a, Cel din urma vis and Gânduri.
  • Her first book was the 1925 volume of poetry Crinii ro?ii.
  • Other magazines that published her work: Curierul artelor, Lumea copiilor, Vremea, Revista Funda?iilor Regale, Adevarul literar ?i artistic, Veac nou, Flacara, Via?a Româneasca, România Literara and Luceafarul.
  • Alone or in collaboration, she translated Paul Verlaine (Fêtes galantes), Leconte de Lisle (L'Epiphanie), Arkady Gaidar (Timur and His Squad), Lev Kassil (The Gladiator's Cup), Czeslaw and Alina Centkiewicz (Chelyuskin) and Gabriela Zapolska (Images).
  • Movila shifted between poetry (Crinii ro?ii, 1925; Calatorii, 1946; Fruct nou, 1948; Versuri 1966), story collections (Neuitatele calatorii, 1958; Câte se petrec pe mare, 1962) and novels (Desfigura?ii, 1935; Nalucile, 1945; Marele ospa?, 1947; Pe vaile Arge?ului, 1950; Via?a în oglinzi, 1970).
  • Throughout, she used her vivid imagination to draw clear, lifelike portraits of the past.

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