Diana Livesay

About The Author

Translation from the original text by Diana Livesay, an independent journalist, translator, and animal lover from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The author, Constantin Manolache (b. 1883) was a military prosecutor, chief of military justice, and professor at the University of Bucharest. After retirement, he became a writer. This volume contains an introduction by A.K. Brackob, a specialist in Romanian history, author of Mircea the Old and Scanderbeg: A History of George Castriota and the Albanian Resistance to Islamic Expansion in Fifteenth-Century Europe.

Books by Diana Livesay

Pirin Planina

Tragic and Comic Episodes from Captivity

By George Topirceanu
Illustrated by Olga Rogozenco / Introduction by A.K. Brackob / Translated by Diana Livesay
In Pirin Planina: Tragic and Comic Episodes from Captivity, Romanian poet and writer George Topirceanu (1886-1937) described his experiences as a soldier during World War I. Despite his bleak surroundings and vivid descriptions of death and tragedy that he witnessed, Topirceanu managed to find hu...
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Scintillating Life of Iulia Hasdeu
By Constantin Manolache
Introduction by A Brackob / Translated by Diana Livesay
The Scintillating Life of Iulia Hasdeu presents the life and literary works of the Romanian child genius of the 19th century. Iulia Hasdeu was the daughter of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, one of the greatest literary and political figures in modern Romanian history. She started reading at two years ...
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