Daniela Crăsnaru, Date of Birth

Daniela Crăsnaru

Romanian poet

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1950

Profession: writer, poet, politician, translator, children's writer

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Daniela-Carmen Crasnaru (born 14 April 1950) is a Romanian poet whose works have been widely translated.
She has also written short stories and works for children.
From 1990 to 1992, Crasnaru was a deputy in the Romanian parliament, representing the National Salvation Front (FSN).Crasnaru has authored poetry, short stories and children's books.
One of the most important contemporary poets in Romania, she has received international acclaim as a result of the translation of her poetry into at least 15 languages.
In 1991, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Romanian Academy where she is now deputy director.Under the Ceau?escu regime, Crasnaru was limited by the political oppression of the period but her unlike many Eastern European authors, her short stories extend beyond politics to enlarge on the weaknesses of ordinary people who experience helplessness and failure.
The poems in her Letters from Darkness reveal the contrast between the work she published in the Ceau?escu period with the subversive poetry she hid until the 1989 revolution.