Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu


Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu was a novelist of the Romanian interwar period.

Life

Hortensia Bengescu was born in Ivești, Galați County, on 8 December 1876. She was the daughter of General Dimitrie Bengescu and of Zoe. She attended high-school in Bucharest and, aged 20, she married the magistrate Nicolae Papadat but her literary career was delayed because her husband was transferred from town to town and because she had to take care of their four children: Nen, Zoe, Marcela and Elena. She died on 5 March 1955.

Works

  • Povârnișul – 1915;
  • Ape adânci – 1919;
  • Bătrânul – 1920;
  • Sfinxul – 1920;
  • Femeia în fața oglinzii – 1921;
  • Balaurul – 1923;
  • Romanță provincială – 1925;
  • Fecioarele despletite – 1926;
  • Concert din muzică de Bach – 1927;
  • Desenuri tragice – 1927;
  • Drumul ascuns – 1933;
  • Logodnicul – 1935;
  • Rădăcini – 1938;
  • Teatru – 1965: Bătrânul, A căzut o stea, Medievala, Sora mea, ''Ana''