Grete TARTLER

Grete TARTLER / Tabarasi, (b.1948 in Bucharest) is a poet, translator, essayist, literary (and music) critic and also a scholar specializing in Oriental studies. She graduated from the University of Bucharest with degrees in Oriental Languages, English, and Music from the Bucharest Conservatory.  She holds a Ph. D. in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest, where she also taught for many years. She published, since her literary debut in 1970, books of poems, essays, literary criticism, prose, literature for children and recently travelogues.

Since her literary debut in 1970, she has published books of poetry, essays, literary criticism, prose, children’s literature, and recently, travelogues. Grete Tartler has translated extensively from German, ancient Arabic and Persian poetry, prose, and philosophy, as well as from English, French, Italian, Greek poetry, and Danish prose. She published multilingual anthologies of her own poetry in translation, and her works have been translated and published in English, German, French, and other languages.

She writes in both Romanian and German and has worked as an editor for the German literature magazine Neue Literatur. In addition to teaching at the University of Bucharest, she has served as a diplomat in Vienna, Copenhagen, Reykjavik, and Athens. She has received numerous awards for her poetry, essays, and translations from the Writers Union and the Academy of Letters and Sciences, including the prestigious State Translation Award of Greece.