Ioan Alexandru

Ioan Alexandru (; born Ion Șandor , December 25, 1941 – September 16, 2000) was a Romanian poet, essayist and politician. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he became a founding member and vice-president of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD). He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies during the 1992 elections, and again in 1996 to the Senate of Romania as a senator from Arad County.

Biography Ioan Alexandru was born in Topa Mică, Cluj County. He attended from 1958 to 1962 the George Barițiu High School in Cluj, after which he enrolled in the Faculty of Philology of the University of Cluj. In 1964 he transferred to the Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature of the University of Bucharest, from which he graduated in 1968.

Writings Cum să vă spun (poetry), 1964 Viața, deocamdată (poetry), 1965 Infernul discutabil (poetry), 1967 Vămile pustiei (poetry), 1969 Vina (poetry), (1967); Poeme (poetry), (1970); Imnele bucuriei (poetry), (1973); Gramatica limbii ebraice vechi (1975) Imnele Transilvaniei, 1976, Imnele Transilvaniei II (poetry), (1985); Iubirea de patrie. Jurnal de poet (essays), I (1978), Iubirea de patrie. Jurnal de poet (essays), II (1985), Imnele Moldovei (poetry), 1980 Poezii-Poesie (1981); Imnele Ţării Româneşti (poetry), 1981 Imnele iubirii (poetry), 1983 Imnele Putnei (poetry), 1985 Imnele Maramureșului (poetry), 1988 Bat clopotele în Ardeal (novel) (1991); Căderea zidurilor Ierihonului sau Adevărul despre Revoluţie (essays) (1993); Amintirea poetului (poetry), (2003); Lumină lină: Imne (poetry), (2004);

Translations He translated from Pindar, Rainer Maria Rilke, and The Song of Songs.