Profira Sadoveanu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Profira Sadoveanu

Romanian prose writer and poet

Date of Birth: 21-May-1906

Place of Birth: Fălticeni, Suceava County, Romania

Date of Death: 03-Oct-2003

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

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Profira Sadoveanu

  • Profira Sadoveanu (May 21, 1906 – September 12, 2003) was a Romanian prose writer and poet. Born in Falticeni, her parents were novelist Mihail Sadoveanu and his wife Ecaterina (née Bâlu).
  • She attended Nicu Gane High School in her native town from 1917 to 1918, a private course prepared by her father and Oltea Doamna High School in Ia?i, graduating in 1925.
  • She studied at the philosophy section of the literature and philosophy faculty at Ia?i University from 1925 to 1929, but did not take her graduating examination.
  • She intended to study the dramatic arts in Paris, but did not obtain her father's consent.Under the pen name Valer Donea, she published reportages in Universul literar ?i artistic.
  • Her first novel was Mormolocul (1933), followed by Naufragia?ii din Aukland (1937).
  • Her fairly extensive output included books of interviews (Domniile lor domnii ?i doamnele, 1937, republished in 1969 as Stele ?i luceferi), memoirs and volumes recalling Mihail Sadoveanu (O zi cu Sadoveanu, 1955; Via?a lui Mihail Sadoveanu, 1957, republished in 1966 as Ostrovul zimbrului; În umbra stejarului, 1965; Planeta parasita, 1970), prose poems (Ploi ?i ninsori, 1940), poems (Somnul pietrei, 1971; Cântecele lui ?tefan Voda, 1974; Flori de piatra, 1980; Ora violeta, 1984) and children's verses (Balaurul alb, 1955; Ochelarii bunicii, 1969).
  • Strongly influenced by her father's literary style, she adopted his florid descriptions but infused her writing with a purely feminine sensibility.
  • Alone or in collaboration with her stepmother Valeria, she translated Anton Chekhov, Konstantin Ushinsky, Alexander Ostrovsky and Honoré de Balzac, and republished her father's books.
  • She died in Bucharest.

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