Background
Her father died in prison after he was arrested for harboring a fugitive general of the defunct Romanian Royal Army (who was another of her uncles) for 11 years.
Her father died in prison after he was arrested for harboring a fugitive general of the defunct Romanian Royal Army (who was another of her uncles) for 11 years.
She graduated from the "Mihai Eminescu" Literary School in Bucharest, and worked for a while for the poetry section of "Viața Românească" while doing translations.
An independent spirit, she ran away three times from home, the last time permanently at the age of 14. She was adopted by an uncle. She settled down in Paris, France, where, being destitute, Pierre Emmanuel"s wife paid her rent for several years.
In Paris she befriended, among others, Romanian émigrés Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, and Jean Parvulesco.
Between 1967 and 1978 she was a collaborator of Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca in their literary radio program aired by Radio Free Europe. She has paid the construction costs for a church in Cornu, a church whose design was inspired by a Horia Damian drawing.
In later years, she has been living in Paris and in New New York