Delia Grigore was born in Galați and grew up under the Romanian communist regime, when the Roma were not recognized as an ethnic group, but as foreign elements that must assimilate in Romanian society.
[1] During that time, her family hid their real identity so as to avoid discrimination.
[2] After the Romanian Revolution of 1989 she could reassert her Romani ethnicity and relearn the language.
Since 2000, Delia Grigore has published a series of writings about Romani culture and language.
Currently, she teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest.