DIANA IEPURE (Romania)

DIANA IEPURE was born on November 20, 1970, in Chisinau. She graduated from the Faculty of History of the State University of the Republic of Moldova. She works as PR & Communication at the Paralela 45 Publishing House, where she also coordinates the Romanian literature department. Within this, she initiated two important editorial collections: “Prima dragoste” – the first collection of contemporary Romanian literature intended for the Young Adult audience in Romania; “Metamorfoze” – a collection of art albums.

Published volumes: Liliuța, Vinea Publishing House, 2004, One Hundred and Fifty Thousand on the Lawns, Casa de Pariuri Literare, 2011, Otherwise, Life is Beautiful, Max Blecher Publishing House, 2021.

Published translations: Nicolae Velimirovici, The Inaccessible Land, Cathisma Publishing House, 2007, Boris Akunin, The Death of Achilles, Humanitas Publishing House, 2008, Russian Winter, an anthology of short stories from Russian literature, Ratio et Revelatio Publishing House, 2013, Selected Pages from Russian Literature of the 19th Century, Corint Publishing House, 2017, Sergei Timofeev, The Apparatuses of a Quiet Time, Max Blecher Publishing House, 2021, Alexei Salnikov, The Petrovs in the Time of Flu, Paralela 45 Publishing House, 2021, Semion Hanin, Details Omitted, Max Blecher Publishing House, 2024, Andrei Kurkov, Samson and Nadezhda, Paralela 45 Publishing House, 2024.

Her poems have been published in numerous collective volumes and anthologies, both in Romania and abroad, and have been translated into English, Dutch, French, Macedonian, Slovak, Polish and Russian.

Awards and nominations: Grand Underground Award of the electronic magazine Tiuk!, 2010, Tiuk! Award for poetry, 2011, Republic Award at the Chisinau International Book Fair, 2012, Ateneu Magazine Award, 2022, Nomination for the Sofia Nădejde Awards for Literature Written by Women, 2021.

In 2024, Diana Iepure was among the four winners of the Cărturești Literary Creation Scholarships.