FLORENTINA CHIFU (ROMANIA)

FLORENTINA CHIFU graduated from the Faculty of Philology, where she studied Romanian and English. She has been a member of the Romanian Writers’ Union since 2016 and an honorary member of the Naji Naaman House of Culture in Lebanon since 2019.

Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Litere, Pro Saeculum, Neuma, Banchetul, Luceafărul de dimineață, and Conexiuni Culturale, and her work has been included in anthologies published in Romania and abroad.

She has received numerous literary distinctions, including the Fiorenza Mannucci Prize (Siena, 2019), the Naji Naaman Literary Prize (2019), the “Doamna Maria Brâncoveanu” Prize (2020), the Casa di Dante Prize (Florence, 2022), the Jury Prize at the L’Alloro di Dante competition (Ravenna, 2022), and the “Gheorghe Tomozei” Prize (2025).

Her work has also appeared in recent anthologies such as Orașul și prietenii (2025), Gustul și aroma poeziei (2026), and the bilingual anthology Tăceri comune (Rafet Publishing House, 2026).