Ioana Crăciunescu

Ioana, also named Luminita, Crăciunescu, was born in Bucharest, the daughter of a civil engineer.

She studied at the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in her native city and in 1973 became a member of the Nottara Theatre Company.

She has published six volumes of collected poetry beginning with Duminica absentă (Sunday absent) in 1980 for which she won the Writers' Union of Romania Prize the following year.

Fifteen years later, she returned to Romania for a brief period and since then has divided her time between the two countries.

[2] In 2009, she received the Nichita Stănescu National Poetry Award from the Romanian Ministry of Culture.