Aura ChristiAura Christi is a Romanian poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. She was born on January 12, 1967, in Chișinău, The Republic of Moldova (formerly the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic), where she graduated from the State Univesity, School of Journalism (1990). In 1993 she retrieved her Romanian citizenship and settled in Bucharest, Romania's capital. There she has had a meteoric rise as a poet, novelist, dramatist and essay-writer, with more than thirty-five books to her credit, and many national and international prizes. Christi's poems have been translated into French, Russian, English, Swedish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Macedonian, Chinese, Korean, Bulgarian, Polish, Albanian, etc. She has traveled widely to read her literary work and delivered lectures as a guest at festivals, symposia, and congresses in Israel, Greece, The People's Republic of China, France, Germany, Turkey, The Russian Federation, Macedonia, Italy, Bulgaria, as well as in The Republic of Moldova. Read More Read Less