Diana Livesay

Diana Livesay is a translator and investigative journalist originally from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She lived in the United States for ten years.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in media management and communication from the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences at Babeș-Bolyai University. As a journalist, she has collaborated with the investigative platform Context.ro. In 2024, her investigation Sănătatea care ne arde (Health That Burns Us) received a Superscrieri Award.

Her translation work spans literature, history, and culture. For American readers, she has translated into English Dimitrie Cantemir’s Descrierea Moldovei (A Description of Moldavia); George Topîrceanu’s Pirin Planina; C. Manolache’s Scânteietoarea viață a Iuliei Hasdeu (The Scintillating Life of Iulia Hasdeu), including Hasdeu’s poetry; Professor Ilie Rad’s America din Cortland (America from Cortland); and Professor Camelia Sîncrăian Pop’s Transilvania tainică și vie (Transylvania, Mystical and Alive). She also contributed translations and transcriptions to Professor Rad’s monograph on the village of Nandra, and wrote the introduction on the life of Emily Gerard for the illustrated volume Transylvanian Superstitions (2024).

Into Romanian, she translated Domnica Rădulescu’s novel Country of Red Azaleas and took part in translating Rădulescu’s memoir, Dream in a Suitcase. She is currently translating Rădulescu’s historical novel My Father’s Orchards into Romanian, as well as George Arion’s crime novel Necuratul din Colga (The Devil of Colga), whose English edition is scheduled for fall 2027. Planned translations include Doina Rusti’s Ferenike, and Simona Antonescu’s historical saga Chiajna of the Mușatin House.