The Fairy Aurora

"The Fairy Aurora" (in Romanian: "Zâna Zorilor", tr. "Fairy of Dawn") is a fairy tale written by Ioan Slavici and published in June 1872.[1] Mihai Eminescu would have urged him to write this first story of his, which was read at Junimea in two sessions and was published in the magazine Convorbiri Literare.[2]

"The Fairy Aurora"
AuthorIoan Slavici
Original title"Zâna Zorilor"
CountryUnited Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
LanguageRomanian
Genre(s)fairy tale
Published inConvorbiri Literare
Publication typeArt magazine
PublisherConvorbiri Literare publishing house
Publication dateJune 1872

It appeared in English as "The Fairy Aurora" in the Roumanian Fairy Tales with 18 Romanian stories published in 1885 by Henry Holt and Company in New York City.[3]

Translations

Andrew Lang also translated this Romanian tale with the title The Fairy of the Dawn, published in his Violet Fairy Book. The king has one weeping eye and one laughing eyes, and asks for the water from the fountain of the Fairy of the Dawn for both eyes to laugh again.[4]

The tale was translated into German by Mite Kremnitz as Die Fee der Morgenröthe, in 1882.[5]

See also

Notes
  1. Constantin Mohanu, „Preface” in Ioan Slavici, Limir-împărat, Editura Ion Creangă, Biblioteca școlarului, Bucharest, 1986, pp. 6
  2. Șerban Cioculescu, Istoria literaturii române III - Epoca marilor clasici, Editura Academiei R. S. România, Bucharest, 1973, pp. 376
  3. "Welcome to the Romanian folktales page!, Roumanian Fairy Tales". www.worldoftales.com.
  4. Lang, Andrew. The Violet Fairy Book. London; New York: Longmans, Green. 1901. pp. 165-198.
  5. Kremnitz, Mite; Ispirescu, Petre. Rumänische Märchen. Leipzig: W. Friedrich. 1882. pp. 238-296.
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