Maria Banuș

Marioara Banuș was born on 10 April 1914 in Bucharest, into a Jewish family. She published her first verses in 1928 and studied law and literature in Bucharest. Banned from publishing under the Antonescu regime, she took part in the clandestine resistance, then after the war was a major voice of official poetry, before returning in the mid-sixties to a more personal vein. A translator of Goethe, Rilke and Shakespeare, she died in Bucharest on 14 July 1999.

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• PoetryȚara fetelorMaria Banuș · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature