Laura Anca Mariam Nureldin (born 11 October 1979) is a Romanian writer, journalist and news anchor.
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ese descent through her father. Nureldin studied psychology at Hyperion University in Bucharest
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, and then worked as a news anchor for several Romanian national television stations. She published several fiction novels.
She was born in Iași
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to a Romanian mother and Sudanese father who studied in Romania during the communist regime.
Career
Literary activity
In 2015, she published her debut book, '' Regii timpului'', followed by a sequel, '' Regii timpului vol. 2: Eroare'', in 2017. Later that year, she published the first book of the ongoing ''Demoni
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'' series. In 2018, she published '' Revertis'' and its spin-off, ''V''. The second book of the ''Demoni'' series, '' Demoni II - Foc'' was released in 2019. All of her books belong to the fantasy
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genre and were published with Herg Benet Publishers. She writes her stories in English, then she translates them to Romanian for local publishing. She is also an active literary translator for several publishing houses and independent authors.
Television
From 1998, she attended Hyperion University where she studied psychology, earning the bachelor's degree in 2002. In the same year, she became a news anchor and editor for Realitatea TV
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. In 2004, she began working as a news anchor for National TV. In June 2006, she was hired as an editor-anchor for The Money Channel.
From September 2010 to March 2011, she worked for TVR 1
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The most important show of the channel is Jurnalul TVR, whose motto is ("The news journal as it should ...
where she presented a weekly show, dedicated to women-related topics, called "Papucul Doamnei" (Lady's Slipper).
From February to July 2012, she was an international news editor and anchor at TVR Info
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. From August 2012 till August 2018, she was a news anchor at Antena 3 (Romania)
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.
Following a wave of racist attacks in social media aimed at her, she decided to part ways with television.
In August 2020, she reconsidered that decision and is now an editor and news anchor for the weekend news programme of Antena 1 (Romania)
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- Observator
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Background
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Book editing
From May to December 2011, she was a book editor at RAO Books. She translated into Romanian
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the book I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words, edited by George Beahm.
References
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1979 births
Living people
Romanian journalists
Romanian women journalists
Romanian television personalities
Romanian people of Sudanese descent