Tacu Maria (born February 15, 1949, in Burdusaci,

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, d. June 18, 2010,

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) was a

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n poet and prose writer. She graduated from the

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, with a degree in Literature. She also published under the pen name Maria Constantines. Her debut was in the ''Astra'' magazine (1987) while her first published work was ''The Hierarchy of Light'' (Prize of the "Writers Association" from Iași) a volume of poetry (1993). She published her first novel, ''My Aunt, Anestina'' in 2000. The main themes of love, loneliness, death and femininity, are found in subsequent novels. In 2005, ''Yesterday's Word'' (Vorba de Ieri), a novel about temptation and power is published. In 2008, ''Women under a Red Tree'', another novel about the relationships of art, love and death is published. Her last novel, "Vlad and Katharina" about

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was published posthumously in 2011.

Published works

*''The Hierarchy of Light'', Danart, 1993 *''My Aunt, Anestina'',

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, 2000 *''Yesterday's Word'', Cartea Românească, 2005 *''Women under a Red Tree'',

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, 2008 *''Vlad and Katharina'', Tracus Arte, 2011

References

Tacu, Maria (Biographical sketch)
on the site of the "

" Editing House *Iulia Dondorici
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'', Nr. 38, noiembrie 2000 *Costi Rogozanu
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'', Nr. 42, 2000 *Adriana Stan
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''Tribuna'', nr. 138, 1-15 iunie 2008 *Horia Gârbea
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''Ramuri'', Nr. 5-6, 2008 1949 births 2010 deaths Romanian women poets Romanian writers 20th-century Romanian poets 20th-century Romanian women writers Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni Pseudonymous women writers People from Bacău County 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{Romania-writer-stub