Maria Tacu


Tacu Maria was a Romanian poet and prose writer. She graduated from the Alexandru [Ioan Cuza University] in Iași, with a degree in Literature. She also published under the pen name Maria Constantines.
Her debut was in the Astra magazine while her first published work was The Hierarchy of Light a volume of poetry. 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, 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 Vlad the Impaler was published posthumously in 2011.

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