Ioana Crăciunescu (Romania)

IOANA CRĂCIUNESCU (theater and film actress and poet) was born on November 13, 1950, in Bucharest. In 1973 she graduated from the I. L. Caragiale Institute of Theater and Cinematography in Bucharest and became an actress at the Nottara Theater. For her writing activity, she was awarded the Bucharest Writers’ Association Prize in 1981 and the “Nichita Stănescu” Grand Prize for poetry, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs in 2009. Ioana Crăciunescu has been, since 2022, an Honorary Citizen of the Bulbucata commune. In 2023, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gopo Awards Gala.

She has published the volumes: Duminica absent, 1980; Supa de ceapă, 1981; Iarna clinică, 1983; The Steam Machine, 1984; The Claws and the Claws, 1998; The Onion Soup / Soupe à l’oignon, 2007; Mon General, 2014, Match Square, Charmides Publishing House, 2017. In 2021, he published the poetry volume Chit sau dublu, Charmides Publishing House, which received the APLER Prize – Poetry Book of the Year 2021.

Films: The Actor and the Savages (1975); The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians (1980). Ioana Crăciunescu performed in Pullman Paradise (1995), Mensonge (1993), Quelque part vers Conakry (1992), Stories with Alexandra (1989), Sunday with Family (1987), Let Me Tell You About Myself (1987), The Woman in the Big Dipper (1982), End of the Line (1982), Why are They Pulling the Bells, Mitică? (1981), Ion: the Curse of the Land, the Curse of Love (1979), Special Edition (1978). Ioana Crăciunescu is a member of the Journalist’s Union, of UCIN and UNITER.