Diana Manole

Bucharest-born Diana Manole is a proudly hyphenated Romanian- Canadian award-winning writer, literary translator, theater artist, and scholar. She co-won second prize in the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition and translated or co-translated seven poetry collections. Independently, she translated two Roma plays from Romania, included in the Roma Heroes anthologies (Hungary, 2019 and 2021), numerous Romanian and Canadian poems featured in magazines, and was awarded the 2023 Lunch Ticket Issue 24 Gabo Prize for her translations of Emil-Iulian Sude’s work.