Hanna Bota (Romania)

HANNA BOTA, editor of the magazine “Viața Românească”, has a degree in philology (2003), a master’s degree in ethnology (2004) from the University of Bucharest, a doctorate in cultural anthropology, for which she conducted field research in Vanuatu, an archipelago in the South Pacific, on the islands of Efate, Moso, Tanna and Espiritu Santo in the Kiai and Akey native tribes, descendants of the last cannibals (2012).

In addition to eight volumes of prose, she has written ten volumes of poetry, an anthology in Romanian and one translated into English, launched in Calcutta, India, a volume translated into Turkish, edited and launched in Istanbul. Nominated several times for the Writers’ Union awards, she received the award of the Cluj Branch of the Writers’ Union, the “Apostrophe” Magazine Award, the “Avangarda XXII” book of the year award, the “Octavian Goga” poetry award, the “Mihai Eminescu” Drobeta Turnu Severin award, the award for manuscripts in English, etc. French, Hungarian, Slovak, Slovenian, Czech, Turkish, Spanish, Korean.