George Nina ELIAN

George Nina ELIAN (real name: Costel Drejoi) was born on November 13, 1964, in Slatina, Romania.
He is a poet, translator, and journalist.

Debut: 1985, in the magazine Cronica (Iași).

Poetry volumes:

• Lumina ca singurătate (Light as Solitude, 2013)

• Ninsoarea se întorsese în cer... (The Snow Had Returned to the Sky..., 2016)

• Fericirea din vecinătatea morții (Happiness Near Death, 2018)

• Timpul din afara ceasurilor (Time Outside the Clocks, 2020)

• Verdele ceai al miezului de noapte. Scrisori de dragoste (The Green Tea of Midnight. Love Letters, 2021)

• Nimic altceva (Nothing Else, 2022)

• Grația cu care moare o frunză (The Grace with Which a Leaf Dies, 2023)

• Aici, adică altundeva / Adrenocrom 666 (Here, That Is Elsewhere / Adrenochrome 666, 2025)

Journalistic works:

• Toamna, când vine sfârșitul lumii. Tablete și alte texte (Autumn, When the End of the World Comes. Tablets and Other Texts, 2014, 2017, 2019)

• "Nu prin viață, ci prin moarte am trecut!..." Cinci mărturii din temnițele comuniste ("Not Through Life, but Through Death I Passed!..." Five Testimonies from Communist Prisons, 2016)

Translations:

• Silvina Vuckovic, A iubi și a dărui suflet (To Love and Give Soul, translated from Spanish, 2015)

• Cleopatra Lorințiu, El paisaje en el que falto / Peisajul din care lipsesc (Bilingual Romanian-Spanish edition, 2017)

• Alexandru Cristian Miloș, L'universo nelle mani / Universul în mâini (Bilingual Romanian-Italian edition, 2019, in collaboration with Norica Isac)

• Fernando Maroja, Vênus de Milo em Ferentari / Venus of Milo in Ferentari (Bilingual Romanian-Portuguese edition, 2023)

His poems have appeared in most Romanian literary magazines as well as international publications in Spain, Italy, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Albania, Serbia, France, and others.