Ana Blandiana, a pseudonym for Otilia Valeria Coman, was born in Timisoara in 1942. Her father was a commander during World War II, and after this priest in the Orthodox cathedral of Oradea and teacher at a high school; Charged with conspiring against the state, he would be sentenced to several years in prison and released after six years in prison, dying soon after. Her mother was born in a Transylvanian village called Blandiana, from where she would take her literary name. As Ana Blandiana, in 1959 her first poem appears in a magazine, but soon it would be denounced and it would be officially prohibited that "the daughter of an enemy of the people" republish in Romania (she would also be denied the right to study in the college). In 1964 his first book of poems appears: Persoana întâia plural (First person plural), the beginning of a fertile literary career that has lasted up to the present time but would reach in 1982, with the award of the prestigious Herder Prize of the University of Vienna, one of his most relevant moments.
From a very young age, both poetry and journalistic work would have great repercussions outside his country. Past Projects, published in 1982, after the Herder Prize was awarded, forms part of an extensive work in which poetry (also for children), some essays, and a short but very interesting narrative production coexist. Periférica has published another volume of the author's stories, Las Cuatro Estaciones (2011). Part of his poetry can already be found, translated into Spanish, in the Pre-Textos publishing house.