Ioana Crăciunescu

Ioana Crăciunescu (born 1950) is a Romanian actress and poet. She has published six volumes of collected poetry, beginning in 1980, and was awarded the Writers' Union of Romania Prize in 1981. In 2009, she received the Nichita Stănescu National Poetry Award from the Romanian Ministry of Culture. She is also known for her performance as Ana Baciu in the 1979 film Blestemul pământului, blestemul iubirii (The curse of the land, the curse of love).

Biography Ioana, also named Luminita, Crăciunescu, was born in Bucharest in 1950, the daughter of a civil engineer. Crăciunescu's poetry has themes of loss, grief, fear, failure and shame.

Awards and honours In 2009, she received the Nichita Stănescu National Poetry Award from the Romanian Ministry of Culture.

Publications & Scrisori dintr-un cîmp cu maci : [versuri] , 1977 Supa de ceapă, 1981 Iarnă clinică : versuri, 1983 Maşinăria cu aburi : versuri, 1984 Caietul cu adnotări, 1988 Hiver clinique : poèmes, 1996 Du front et des griffes, 1998