Mircea Ciobanu (Romanian pronunciation: ['mirt??ea t???o'banu]; b.
Mircea Sandu ['sandu], May 13, 1940, Bucharest - d.
April 22, 1996, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, writer, editor, translator and essayist.
He is best remembered for his two volumes of interviews with HM King Michael I of Romania (a book widely reprinted by various editors in the early 1990s, later reunited in a single volume by "Humanitas" Publishing House), that offers the most complete insight in the King's political and personal way of thinking, to date.