Sarina Cassvan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sarina Cassvan

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1894

Place of Birth: Bacău, Bacău County, Romania

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1978

Profession: writer, translator, journalist, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Sarina Cassvan

  • Sarina Cassvan (born Sara Cassvan; January 3, 1894–January 8, 1978) was a Romanian novelist and translator. Born into a Jewish family in Bacau, her parents were Lazar Cassvan and his wife Janeta Alter Con.
  • She attended the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University.
  • Her first work in journalism was published in 1912, while her first book, Crezul ocna?ului, appeared the following year.
  • She contributed to Revista copiilor ?i a tinerimii, Adevarul literar ?i artistic, Lupta, Cuvântul literar, Diminea?a, Scena, Rampa, Femeia, Gazeta literara and Contemporanul.
  • Between 1929 and 1933, she sent correspondent's reports to Paris.
  • In 1933, she edited the magazine 1933-1934.
  • She founded the European Thought Association, which she led for eight years.
  • During this time, the organization was sponsored by Elena Vacarescu and financed by prominent domestic and foreign individuals.
  • Thanks to her ongoing literary activity and cultural promotion abroad, she was received into the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Académie Féminine des Lettres.
  • The World War II-era Ion Antonescu regime officially banned her entire work as "Jewish".Besides short stories and novels, she wrote much children's literature, as well as a romanticized biography of Dimitrie Cantemir, the 1963 Între pana ?i spada.
  • Her 1933 30 de zile în studio was among the first books of reportages in the country, and also represented an early example of Romanian-language works about the cinema.
  • Her plays were Ma?tile destinului (performed at the Ia?i National Theatre and at Paris' Théâtre Albert-Ier), Una sau mai multe femei and Calvar.
  • Her children's plays were Ni?a, Nu?a ?i Labu? and În ?ara trântorilor; they appeared in Ia?i and in Bucharest.
  • Cassvan assembled and translated Contes roumains d’écrivains contemporains, a 1931 anthology, and was responsible for numerous translations from world literature.Her husband was fellow writer Ion Pas.

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