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Nina Cassian (pen name of Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru; 27 November 1924 – 14 April 2014) was a Romanian poet, translator, journalist and film critic.〔(7 March 1999). (Poetry in Brief ), ''The Independent''〕 She rendered into Romanian the works of William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan. She has published more than fifty books of her own poetry. == Early life and career == Born into a Jewish family in Galaţi (her father being Iosif Cassian-Mătăsaru, a translator), they lived in Brașov between 1926 and 1935.〔 In 1935, the family moved to Bucharest, where she went to high school. She took drawing lessons with George Loewendal and M. H. Maxy, acting lessons with Beate Fredanov and Alexandru Finți, piano and musical composition lessons with Theodor Fuchs, Paul Jelescu, Mihail Jora and Constantin Silvestri.〔 In 1944 she entered the Literature Department of Bucharest University, but abandoned her studies after one year.〔 She published her first poem, ''Am fost un poet decadent'' ("I Used to Be a Decadent Poet") in the daily România liberă in 1945,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A murit poeta Nina Cassian. Cenușa sa va fi adusă în România )〕 and her first poetry collection, ''La scara 1/1'' (""Scale 1:1") in 1947. It was labeled "decadent poetry" in a Scînteia article in 1948.〔 Scared by that fierce criticism, she then turned to writing in the proletkult and socialist-realistic fashion.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CASSIAN (Katz), NINA )〕 This phase lasted for about eight years.〔 At the beginning of her career, Cassian and her first husband, Vladimir Colin, were contributors to the magazine ''Orizont''. She had a very close relation with Ion Barbu.〔 Cassian travelled to the United States as a visiting professor in 1985. During her stay in America, a friend of hers, Gheorghe Ursu, was arrested and subsequently beaten to death by the Securitate for possessing a diary. The diary contained several of Cassian's poems which satirized the Communist regime and the authorities thought to be inflammatory. Hence, she decided to remain in the US. She was granted asylum in the United States, and continued to live in New York City.〔Gray, Channing (19 June 2008). (Poet, composer, refugee at URI ), ''The Providence Journal'' 〕 Eventually, she became an American citizen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NINA CASSIAN )〕 In the US, she published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and other magazines. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nina Cassian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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