| Nora Iuga | |
| Birth Date: | 4 January 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Bucharest, Romania |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Nationality: | Romanian |
| Awards: | Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis |
Nora Iuga (born 4 January 1931) is a Romanian poet, writer and translator.
Iuga was born in Bucharest, Romania on 4 January 1931.[1] As well as being a writer, Iuga has also worked as a journalist, foreign language assistant, and editor.[2]
Her first collection of poems was published in 1968 and was called Vina nu e a mea (It Is Not My Fault). She was censored between 1971 and 1978 by the communist government in Romania[3] after the publication of her second collection off poems, Captivitatea cercului (Trapped in a Circle).
The first English translation of her work, a collection of poems called The Hunchbacks’ Bus, was published in 2016.[4] Several of her works have also been translated into German.[5] English translations of her work were included in the anthology Something is still present and isn't, of what's gone.[6]
She was awarded with a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2003 and won the Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis in 2007.