Constanța Hodoș, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Constanța Hodoș

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1861

Place of Birth: Arad County, Romania

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1934

Profession: writer, children's writer

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Constanța Hodoș

  • Constan?a Hodo? (October 12, 1860–April 20, 1934) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian novelist, playwright and opinion journalist. Born in Zimbru, Arad County, her parents were Constantin Tala?, a notary, deputy prefect and supporter of the 1848 revolutionaries in the ?ara Zarandului area; and his wife Amalia.
  • Her childhood was spent at Aciua, Halmagiu and Baia de Cri?; a graduate of the Romanian girls' school in Halmagiu, she also took private lessons.
  • Nevertheless, Hodo?, a precocious and voracious reader of literature, was largely self-taught.
  • She married writer Alexandru I.
  • Hodo?, but the union proved a failure, prompting her to move to Bucharest, capital of the Romanian Old Kingdom, in 1886.
  • There, she undertook sustained publishing activity, penning articles on patriotic, social and cultural themes.
  • She edited Revista noastra from 1905 to 1916, and also contributed to Adevarul literar ?i artistic, Dacia Traiana, Luceafarul, Lumea ilustrata, Minerva, Revista scriitoarei, Samanatorul, Sibiul literar, Telegraful român, Transilvania, Universul, Viea?a and Via?a literara.Her writing debut came in Familia in 1891, under the pseudonym Th.
  • Costan.
  • Using the same name, she published her first volume, the novella Aur!, in 1893.
  • Subsequently, she wrote the short prose volumes Spre fericire (1897), Frumos (1905), Departe de lume (1909) and Aci, pe pamânt (1914), as well as the novel Martirii (1908).
  • Her plays included Aur! (1903), Mântuirea (1920) and Judecatorul (1922); these were staged at the National Theatre Bucharest, as well as by amateur troupes in her native Transylvania.
  • Hodo? also wrote plays and stories for children: Teatru de copii (1914), Rodica.
  • În vârtejul razboiului (1921) and Povestiri din via?a copiilor (1928).
  • She was a member of the governing committee of the Romanian Writers' Society, and in 1910 was awarded the Bene Merenti medal, first class.

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