Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu

Romanian poet, translator

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1897

Place of Birth: St. Moritz, Graubünden, Switzerland

Date of Death: 31-May-1995

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu

  • ?tefana Velisar Teodoreanu (born Maria ?tefana Lupa?cu, also credited as ?tefania Velisar or Lily Teodoreanu; October 17, 1897 – May 30 or 31, 1995) was a Romanian novelist, poet and translator, wife of the writer Ionel Teodoreanu.
  • Encouraged to write by her husband, she was a late representative of Poporanist traditionalism, which she infused with moral themes from Romanian Orthodoxy, and also with echos of modernist literature.
  • Her works of youth, coinciding with World War II, comprise mainly novels centered on the internal conflicts and moral triumphs of provincial women such as herself.
  • Forming a counterpart to her husband's own books, they won praise in their day, but were later criticized for being idyllic and didactic. An anti-communist like her husband, Velisar helped writers and political figures persecuted by the communist regime.
  • She continued to publish, switching mainly to collaborative translation work until the late 1960s, and earned acclaim for her renditions of Russian literature classics.
  • During the same interval, she was left a widow by her husband's death, which occurred at the height of communist pressures on the family; her brother in law Pastorel was imprisoned, as was her friend Dinu Pillat, while others in her circle fled Romania.
  • Returning to more favor in the late 1960s, Velisar lived a mostly quiet life, and eventually withdrew to Varatec Monastery.
  • Her late work comprised a celebrated memoir of her relationship with Teodoreanu, as well as letters she sent to the Pillat family, which were collected in a 2010 book.

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