Ion Foti
Ion Foti (December 11, 1887–1946) was an Ottoman-born Romanian poet, prose writer, journalist and translator.
He was born into an Aromanian family in Kleisoura, a village that formed part of the Ottoman Empire's Manastir Vilayet and is now in Greece. His father was a trader. After completing high school in Bitola, Foti emigrated to the Romanian Old Kingdom, where he attended the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University. His first published work, the Cântițe si-ndoauă isturii aleapte, appeared in 1912. He was a correspondent for the Athenian newspaper Elefthero Vima, 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 Sămănătorul, Luceafărul, , , Flacăra and Universul. He translated Aeschylus, as well as Oriental and German poems into Romanian and Aromanian. In 1925, he won the Romanian Writers' Society prize for poetry.[1]
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- ^ Aurel Sasu (ed.), Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, vol. I, p. 598. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. ISBN 973-697-758-7
- 1872 births
- 1941 deaths
- Romanian people of Aromanian descent
- Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Romania
- University of Bucharest alumni
- Romanian newspaper editors
- Romanian magazine editors
- Romanian translators
- 19th-century Romanian poets
- Aromanian writers
- Romanian male poets
- 19th-century translators
- People from Kastoria (regional unit)