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Nina Cassian

Nina Cassian was a Romanian and American linguist, writer, journalist, poet and translator (1924–2014). She was born at Galați and died at New York City.

Nina Cassian in brief

Born
1924
Died
2014
Known for
linguist, writer, journalist, poet, translator, composer and university teacher
Place of birth
Galați
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Identity and origins

Nina Cassian was recorded at birth as Renée-Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru. She also worked under the name Nina Cassian. Her recorded languages were Romanian and English.

She married Vladimir Colin.

Catalogued works

35 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library. Their recorded dates run from 1955 to 1997.

Avangarda nu moare şi nu se predă. Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum. Lady of Miracles. Spectacol în aer liber. Confidențe fictive. Destinele paralele ; La scară 1/1. Numărătoarea inversă. Atît de grozavă și adio. Poezii. Something old, something new. Intolerant landscape. The Avant Garde Doesn't Die and Never Surrenders. Memoria ca zestre. Take My Word for It. Continuum. Interviews and Encounters. Virages. Blue Apple (Cross-Cultural Review Chapbook, 0271-6070; 13. Romanian Poet), dated 1981. Call yourself alive?, dated 1988. Cheerleader for a funeral, dated 1992. Cronofagie 1944-1969, dated 1970. De îndurare, dated 1981. Jocuri de vacanță, dated 1983. Life sentence, dated 1990. Life Sentences, dated 1997. Marea conjugare, dated 1971. Numărádtoarea inversă, dated 1983. Numărătoarea inversă, dated 1983. O sută de poeme, dated 1974. Spectacol în aer liber, dated 1974. Suave, dated 1977. Versuri alese, dated 1955. The Blue Apple, dated 1981. Confidențe fictive, dated 1976. Nică fără frică, dated 1958.

Literature

9 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Nina Cassian, Censorship in Romania, 1998. Call Yourself Alive? The Love Poems of Nina Cassian, World Literature Today, 1990. Exile in Contemporary RomanianLiterature: The Case of Nina Cassian, Limba, literatura, folclor, 2025. Eroticism and sensuality in the lyrics of Nina Cassian, Studiul artelor şi culturologie: istorie, teorie, practică, 2025. Writing Children's Literature in Romania: An Interview with Nina Cassian, The Lion and the Unicorn, 1986. LE DON DE L’AMOUR ET DE L’AMITIE DU POEME. LES ENVOIS DE PAUL CELAN A NINA CASSIAN, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2017. A LITERARY APOLOGIA FOR FREEDOM: THE CASE OF NINA CASSIAN, Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2025. EROTICISM AND SENSUALITY IN THE LYRICS OF NINA CASSIAN, Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2025. WITH HER NOSE IN THE BOOK BY NINA CASSIAN: FUNCTIONAL AND EMOTIONAL ILLITERACY AS POETIC MEANING, Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2025.

Digitised editions and texts

2 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Life sentence (1990) — Internet Archive. Lady of Miracles (1982) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 14 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1924Nina Cassian born at Galați.
  2. 1982Lady of Miracles digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1990Life sentence digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 2014Nina Cassian died at New York City.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “Nina Cassian”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q2735531: Nina Cassian

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