Grete Tartler

Margareta Tăbăraşi (; born 23 November 1948) is a Romanian poet, translator, children's author, essayist and diplomat. She has published over a dozen poetry collections since the 1970s, and her poems have been translated into other languages and widely anthologised. She was made a Grand Officer of Romania's National Order of Merit in 2000 in recognition of her service as a diplomat, and in 2024 she was awarded the Mihai Eminescu National Poetry Prize.

Education and family Tartler was born in Bucharest on 23 November 1948, and is of Transylvanian Saxon ancestry. She grew up in a bilingual household with both parents speaking German, and attended a German school. Robert Murray Davis writes in World Literature Today that her writing has inescapable political connotations given her upbringing in Romania's communist era. She has said that her poetry for children is inspired by family life with her husband and daughter.

In 1978 and 1985 she received the Writers' Union of Romania poetry prize, and in 1982 she received the Romanian Academy poetry prize. In 1995 Tartler's poetry appeared in An Anthology of Romanian Women Writers, published by Columbia University Press and edited by Adam J. Sorkin and Kurt Treptow. A review of the anthology in World Literature Today said Tartler "brings to poetry her games of erudition and is at times profound, at others coquettishly ironic and extravagant". Her poetry has also been translated into French by Linda Maria Baros and into Swedish by . Harold B. Segel has commented on her poetry's use of musical themes and elements, and the way her work reflects her knowledge of Arabic language and culture. Almost a third of the anthology represented her children's poetry. The Botoșani City Hall will also fund the publication of an anthology of her poetry. A review in the literary journal observes that the title references a short religious hymn followed by the word "today". including from 1997 to 2001 serving as ambassador to Copenhagen and Reykjavik, serving as the cultural attaché in Vienna, As of 2015 Tartler was an associate professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration and researcher at the Paul Celan Centre of Excellence in the University of Bucharest.

Tartler's translation work is extensive, and includes translations both to and from Romanian in German, Arabic, Persian, English, French, Danish and Greek. Notably, she translated the German novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind into Romanian in the late 1980s. She has said the translation process took her about a year, and she originally undertook it of her own initiative (without having been approached by a publisher).

Selected works

Poetry Apa Vie, Eminescu, 1970 Chorale, Cartea Românească, 1974 Hore, Cartea Românească, 1977 Astronomia ierbii, Cartea Românească, 1981 Scrisori de acreditare, Eminescu, 1982 Substituiri, Cartea Românească, 1983 Achene zburătoare, Cartea Românească, 1986 Materia Signata, Cartea Românească, 1992 (republished 2004) Roșiile portocalii când sunt verzi sunt galbene, Albatros, 1997 Cuneiforme (selected poems published between 1970 and 1995) Helicon, 1997 Cuvinte salvate. Poezii 2004–2018 (Cu şi fără Stelian Tăbăraş), Omonia, 2018 Versuri şi uscate, Junimea, 2019 Tropar. Astázi, Scoala Ardeleaná, 2025

Other works Europa națiunilor, Europa rațiunilor (non-fiction), Cartea Românească, 2001 Identitate europeană (non-fiction), Cartea Românească, 2006