Real name: Otilia Valeria Coman

Romanian poet, essayist born 25 March 1942 in Timisoara. She took the pen name Ana Blandiana after the village of her mother to avoid repercussion of her father, a preacher who was a political prisoner of the late `40 communist regime. Was banned many times of writing by the Ceausescu regime. After 1989 Revolution she was a political activist against Iliescu party (National Salvation Front) and then opened a memorial place of Sighet a former political prison where many political prisoners were tortured (including his father).