Sarina Cassvan (bornSara Cassvan; January 3, 1894–January 8, 1978) was aRomanian novelist and translator.
Born into aJewish family inBacău, her parents were Lazăr Cassvan and his wife Janeta Alter Con.[1] She attended the literature and philosophy faculty of theUniversity of Bucharest. Her first work in journalism was published in 1912, while her first book,Crezul ocnașului, appeared the following year. She contributed toRevista copiilor și a tinerimii,Adevărul literar și artistic,Lupta,Cuvântul literar,Dimineața,Scena,Rampa,Femeia,Gazeta literară, andContemporanul. Between 1929 and 1933, she sent correspondent's reports to Paris. In 1933, she edited the magazine1933-1934. She founded the European Thought Association, which she led for eight years. During this time, the organization was sponsored byElena Văcărescu and financed by prominent domestic and foreign individuals. Thanks to her ongoing literary activity and cultural promotion abroad, she was received into theSociété des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Académie Féminine des Lettres.[2] The World War II-eraIon Antonescu regime officially banned her entire work as "Jewish".[1]
Besides short stories and novels, she wrote much children's literature, as well as a romanticized biography ofDimitrie Cantemir, the 1963Între pană și spadă. Her 193330 de zile în studio was among the first books of reportages in the country,[2] and also represented an early example of Romanian-language works about the cinema.[3] Her plays wereMăștile destinului (performed at theIași National Theatre and at Paris'Théâtre Albert-Ier),Una sau mai multe femei andCalvar. Her children's plays wereNiță,Nuța și Lăbuș, andÎn țara trântorilor; they appeared inIași and inBucharest. Cassvan assembled and translatedContes roumains d’écrivains contemporains, a 1931 anthology, and was responsible for numerous translations from world literature.[2]
Her husband was fellow writerIon Pas.[2]
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