Irina Negrea (born 19 October 1952) is a Romanian literary translator, journalist and editor.
Irina Negrea holds a M.A. at the University of Bucharest, majored in English, French and Latin language and literature. She specializes in literary translations from French and English language works into Romanian. Her other specialities include translation of non-fiction books (media, information and communication, reference/dictionaries, memoirs, history etc.).
She has translated more than sixty books which were published by Romanian publishing houses such as Humanitas publishing house, Rao, Editura Univers, Nemira, Art, Editura Paralela 45, Leda, Corint Junior, Vivaldi, Editura Curtea Veche, Litera, Lider, Editura Trei etc.
A freelance journalist and an editorial advisor for publishers, she was formerly a deputy chief editor[1][2] of Cotidianul and a TV media advisor[3] for the Romanian Television Corporation (Televiziunea Română).
She received the "Lucian Blaga" Literary Award[4][5] for the translation in Romanian of the novel D'un château l'autre (Castle to Castle) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
She is a member of the Writers' Union of Romania.