Education
Daughter of writer Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea and Maria Lupașcu, she studied piano first with his mother, then at the Conservatory of Bucharest and Paris.
Daughter of writer Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea and Maria Lupașcu, she studied piano first with his mother, then at the Conservatory of Bucharest and Paris.
She"s also known for her romantic relationship with Nae Ionescu, Romanian logician and politician, spiritual mentor of "Eliade generation". She was considered by Ion Luca Caragiale, after hearing her singing a waltz by Chopin, at 14 years old, in Vienna, "a wonder child, Cella Delavrancea, who tames a wild monster: the Art". She was deeply influenced by family, as she said herself, "I was raised in an atmosphere in which they spoke only of literature, art and music".
She concerts throughout Europe alongside great artists, often in duet with George Enescu.
In 1929, she started in literature in Tudor Arghezi"s magazine, Bilete de papagal, collaborating after 1935 with magazines Cuvântul, Muzică și poezie, Timpul, Curentul, România Literară, Revista Fundațiilor Regale, et cetera and, after 1950, at Contemporanul, Gazeta literară or Secolul XX. Her main works, short stories, novels or memoirs, are Vraja (1946), Mozaic în timp (1973), O vară ciudată (1975), Dintr-un secol de viață (1987), et cetera She was buried in Bellu cemetery.