Liliana Ursu

Liliana Ursu,internationally acclaimed Romanian poet, was born in Sibiu, Romania, in 1949. Ursu has published eight books of poetry in Romanian. Her first book in English, The Sky Behind the Forest (Bloodaxe Books, 1997), translated by Ursu, Adam J. Sorkin, and Tess Gallagher, became a british Poetry Book Society Recommended Translationand was shortlisted for Oxford's Weidenfeld Prize.