Sarina Cassvan

Sarina Cassvan (born Sara Cassvan; January 3, 1894–January 8, 1978) was a Romanian novelist and translator.

Born into a Jewish family in Bacău, her parents were Lazăr Cassvan and his wife Janeta Alter Con.

Besides short stories and novels, she wrote much children's literature, as well as a romanticized biography of Dimitrie Cantemir, the 1963 Între pană și spadă. Her 1933 30 de zile în studio was among the first books of reportages in the country, Her plays were Măștile destinului (performed at the Iași National Theatre and at Paris' Théâtre Albert-Ier), Una sau mai multe femei and Calvar. Her children's plays were Niță, Nuța și Lăbuș, and În țara trântorilor; they appeared in Iași and in Bucharest. Cassvan assembled and translated Contes roumains d’écrivains contemporains, a 1931 anthology, and was responsible for numerous translations from world literature.