Romanian Author, Poet, Translator, and Diplomat to Speak at Seminary

On Thursday, May 3, 2018, Ioana Ieronim-Latham, the well-known Romanian author, poet, translator, and diplomat, now an American citizen residing with her husband in Washington, D.C., will deliver a lecture on her experiences growing up, being educated, and surviving spiritually in the totalitarian and atheistic state of the former Socialist Republic of Romania. She is a fascinating and engaging lecturer with vast experience of life in Eastern Europe during the terrible years of Communist dictatorships and repression.

The lecture will be held at the Seminary auditorium, on the first floor, at 7:00 p.m. Complimentary refreshments will be offered, after the lecture, in the dining hall located upstairs on the second floor.

Mrs. Ieronim-Latham is former Cultural Attaché at the Romanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., former Program Director of the United States–Romanian Fulbright Commission in Romania, and a distinguished member of the Romanian Writer’s Union. Holding a degree in philology from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, she has participated throughout the world in various academic and literary conferences and symposia. In Romania, she is a well-known and popular writer, enjoying, as well, an international reputation for her many writings, including numerous books of poetry and several plays, that have appeared in translation in many European countries, in Turkey and Israel, and in the United States. Her own Romanian translations of English literary works, including Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, and others have won her many prizes and awards. In fact, her translation skills won her a nomination for the prestigious Lord Weidenfeld Translation Prize at Oxford University in England.

Mrs. Ieronim-Latham, an Orthodox Christian, is in Etna with her husband, Dr. Ernest Hargreaves Latham, Jr., an American scholar, historian, diplomat, and Episcopalian Christian. A retired Instructor at the United States State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, he is an Adjunct Professor at the Saint Photios Orthodox Theological Seminary, teaching at present a two-week seminar at the Seminary entitled “The Twentieth Century’s Search for Salvation,” an historical evaluation of the last century’s spiritual triumphs and failures.