Ion Gorun (pen name of Alexandru I. HodoÃÂ; December 30, 1863–March 30, 1928) was an Austrian Empire-born Romanian prose writer, poet and translator.
Born in RoÃÂia, Sibiu County, his parents were Iosif Hodoàand his wife Ana (née Balint). His brothers Enea and Nerva were both writers, as was his wife ConstanÃÂa; his uncle was Alexandru Papiu Ilarian. He attended high school at BraÃÂov and Sibiu between 1876 and 1880. Subsequently crossing into the Romanian Old Kingdom, he entered the medical faculty of the University of Bucharest, taking classes from 1881 to 1883 before withdrawing and enrolling in the literature faculty, where he graduated in 1888, and the law faculty, which he did not complete. He became an editor for the National Liberal Party-affiliated magazine NaÃÂiunea and was editing secretary for VieaÃÂa (1893-1894) and Povestea vorbei (1896-1897). He headed ViaÃÂa nouàmagazine in 1898, and edited the Arad-based Românul. He edited Pagini literare magazine from 1899 to 1900; together with Artur Stavri, edited ViaÃÂa literaràÃÂi artisticà(1906-1908); with George CoÃÂbuc, Revista noastrÃÂ, briefly in 1907; with ConstanÃÂa HodoÃÂ, Astra (1915-1918) and RÃÂzboiul popoarelor (1914-1916). His work appeared in SÃÂmÃÂnÃÂtorul, Vatra and Fântâna Blanduziei.
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. His prose books were Alb ÃÂi negru (1902), Robinson în ÃÂara Româneascà(1904), Lume necÃÂjità(1911) and Obraze ÃÂi mÃÂÃÂti (1922). He authored a monograph about Alexandru VlahuÃÂÃÂ. 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 "". In 1926, he was awarded the national prize for prose.