Ion Gorun

Ion Gorun (pen name of Alexandru I. Hodoș; December 30, 1863–March 30, 1928) was an Austrian Empire-born Romanian prose writer, poet and translator.

Born in Roșia, Sibiu County, his parents were Iosif Hodoș and his wife Ana (née Balint).

He became an editor for the National Liberal Party-affiliated magazine Națiunea and was editing secretary for Vieața (1893-1894) and Povestea vorbei (1896-1897).

[1] His first published verses appeared in 1889, in Convorbiri Literare, under the pen name Castor; his first newspaper work ran in Poporul; his first book was the 1901 poetry collection Câteva versuri.

Authors he translated include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, August Strindberg, Alexandre Dumas and Karl May; he also gave a Romanian version of Immanuel Kant's "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch".