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Mrs. Blandiana was born in Timisoara, Transylvania, Romania, on March 25, 1942. Her parents were Gheorghe (1915-1964), a priest who spent years in Communist prisons and died in an accident weeks after his release in a general amnesty, and Otilia (Diacu), an accountant. Her sister Geta was born in 1947.
Ana Blandiana graduated from University of Cluj, obtaining Master of Arts degree (philology) in 1967.
After her debut in 1959, in Tribuna, Cluj, where she signed for the first time as Ana Blandiana, Mrs. Blandiana was published in the anthology 30 de poeți tineri ("30 Young Poets"). In 1963, after a four-year interdiction due to her father's status, she again published in Contemporanul (edited by George Ivașcu). In 1966, Mrs. Blandiana appeared for the first time at the International Poem Contest (in Lahti, Finland).
In 1967, she settled in Bucharest; until the following year, she was one of the editors for Viața studențească, and then (until 1975) worked as editor for Amfiteatru. Ana Blandiana gave two televised readings in 1969, in the company of Andrei Șerban and the actors Irina Petrescu, Mariana Mihuț and Florian Pittiş.
Between 1975 and 1977, Mrs. Blandiana was a librarian at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest. In 1976, her works were first printed in a French translation, in Croisière du Club des Poètes by fr:Jean-Pierre Rosnay (Paris); in 1978, she took part in the First International Festival of Poetry in Paris organized by the famed Club des Poètes.
In the late 1980s, assuming risks of reprisals of the communist regime, Mrs. Blandiana started writing protest poems, in answer to the increasingly harsh demands of the system in general. In 1984 Mrs. Blandiana's poem 'Totul' ('Everything') was briefly published in the literary magazine Amfiteatru.
In 1987 Ana Blandiana published at the Sport-Turism Publishing House the book "Orase de silabe" ("City of syllables") where she writes about all the countries and cities of the world where she traveled in spite of the 'communist dictatorship': over 100. The same year, 1987, she is published in USSR, at Raduga Publishing House from Moscow, with the Russian title Stihotvorenia, rasskazî, asse.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, she entered political life, campaigning for the removal of the communist legacy from administrative office, as well as for an open society. She left literary work in the background, although she did publish Arhitectura valurilor ("Waves' Architecture", 1990), 100 de poeme ("100 Poems", 1991), and Sertarul cu aplauze ("The Drawer of Applause", prose, 1992).
Ana Blandiana was a fruitful author who created plenty of poems and published numerous books. Her work Sertarul cu aplauze ("The Drawer of Applause") was translated into 16 languages.
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Her father's influence and example can be seen in her intrinsically religious conception of existence.
As Romania and its people became increasingly oppressed by the dictatorship of President Ceausescu during the 1980s, Mrs. Blandiana was banned from publication in Romania because her poetry was taking on a far more political and dissident flavor. She, in turn, became a popular figure in the fight to overthrow the president, who was ousted from power in 1989 and killed, along with his wife.
She is a Member of the Writers' Union of Romania.
She is a Member of the European Academy of Poetry.
She is a Chairman of the Romanian PEN Club, after its re-establishment in 1990.
Writers' Union of Romania , Romania
Romanian PEN Club , Romania
founder and leader
Civic Alliance Foundation , Romania
1994
European Academy of Poetry
Quotes from others about the person
Lesley Chamberlain told in the Times Literary Supplement: "Blandiana is not, syntactically or formally, a difficult poet to read, but her sentiment is rarefied. ... the translators suggest that a good part of her extraordinary popularity in Romania derives from her uninhibited Romantic vulnerability."
In 1960 she married the writer Romulus Rusan.
