Ana Blandiana

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).