Ion Foti
Ion Foti (December 11, 1887–1946; Aromanian: Oani Foti[1]) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, journalist, and translator.
He was born into an Aromanian family in Kleisoura, a village that formed part of the Ottoman Empire's Manastir Vilayet and is now in Greece. His father was a trader. After completing high school in Bitola, Foti emigrated to the Romanian Old Kingdom, where he attended the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest. His first published work, the Aromanian-language Cântițe si-ndoauă isturii aleapte, appeared in 1912. He was a correspondent for the Athenian newspaper Elefthero Vima, an editor at Bucharest's Viitorul newspaper and, together with Romulus P. Voinescu, co-directed the cultural bimonthly Propilee literare (1926-1929). Foti's work appeared in Sămănătorul, Luceafărul, Literatorul, Convorbiri Critice, Flacăra, and Universul. He translated Aeschylus, as well as Oriental and German poems into Romanian and Aromanian. In 1925, he won the Romanian Writers' Society prize for poetry.[2]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Cuvata, Dina (2001). Scriitori armãneshtsã (in Aromanian). Union for Culture of the Aromanians of Macedonia. p. 29.
- ^ Aurel Sasu (ed.), Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, vol. I, p. 598. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. ISBN 973-697-758-7
- 1872 births
- 1941 deaths
- People from Kastoria
- Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire
- Romanian people of Aromanian descent
- Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Romania
- University of Bucharest alumni
- Aromanian editors
- Romanian newspaper editors
- Romanian magazine editors
- Romanian translators
- Aromanian translators
- 19th-century Romanian poets
- Aromanian poets
- Romanian male poets
- 19th-century translators