Ion Foti (December 11, 1887–1946; ) was a

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n poet, prose writer, journalist, and translator. He was born into an Aromanian family in Kleisoura, a village that formed part of the

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Manastir Vilayet The Vilayet of Manastir () was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, created in 1874, dissolved in 1877 and re-established in 1879. The vilayet was occupied during the First Balkan War in 1912 and divided between t ...

and is now in Greece. His father was a trader. After completing

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, Foti emigrated to the

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, where he attended the literature and philosophy faculty of the

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. His first published work, the Aromanian-language ''Cântițe si-ndoauă isturii aleapte'', appeared in 1912. He was a correspondent for the Athenian newspaper ''

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'', 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 ''

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'', '' Luceafărul'', '' Literatorul'', '' Convorbiri Critice'', ''

Flacăra ''Flacăra'' (Romanian for "The Flame") is a weekly literary magazine published in Bucharest, Romania. History and profile ''Flacăra'' was started in 1911. The first issue was published on 22 October 1911. The founder was Constantin Banu and t ...

'', and ''

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''. He translated

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, as well as Oriental and German poems into Romanian and Aromanian. In 1925, he won the

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prize for poetry.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 598. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Foti, Ion 1872 births 1941 deaths People from Kastoria Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire Romanian people of Aromanian descent Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Romania Romanian High School of Bitola alumni University of Bucharest alumni Aromanian editors Romanian newspaper editors Romanian magazine editors Aromanian translators 19th-century Romanian poets Aromanian poets Romanian male poets 19th-century Romanian translators