Lit in Translation

Simona Sora

Born 1967 · Romania

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Books on prize lists

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    Observator cultural 2021 · Winner

    Complezență. Înălțarea la ortopedie • Musafir pe viață

    Title translated by AI:“Complaisance”

    Simona Sora · 53 when first published

    Novel · 264 pages · Politics

    AI-generated summary:Two possible lives of the same woman, a literature-loving nurse called Maia: in a communist Romanian hospital she is drawn into the inquiry into an illegal abortion; as a refugee she works in a Swiss care home bound by strict rules.

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    Observator cultural 2013 · Shortlist

    Hotel Universal

    Simona Sora · 45 when first published

    Novel · 272 pages · Family, Historical

    AI-generated summary:In a room of the Hotel Universal in Bucharest, once the heart of the old city and in 1993 a refuge for student bohemia, a sleepwalking young woman writes and rewrites the family saga her grandmother told her for years.