Ileana Malancioiu was born in 1940 in a village in Arges, about a hundred miles northwest of Bucharest. She has worked in journalism and films. In 2004 she received the Romanian Writers' Union Prize for Opera Omnia . She lives in Bucharest. From her first collection onward, her poems draw on rural life and folklore, on religious and literary icons, but their true focus has been on the trauma of history . .
Ileana Malancioiu was born in 1940 in a village in Arges, about a hundred miles northwest of Bucharest. She has worked in journalism and films. In 2004 she received the Romanian Writers' Union Prize for Opera Omnia . She lives in Bucharest. From her first collection onward, her poems draw on rural life and folklore, on religious and literary icons, but their true focus has been on the trauma of history . .