Dan Dănilă

Who is Dan Dănilă?

Dan Dănilă is a Romanian poet, translator and painter living in Leonberg, Germany, since 1990. He was born in 1954 in the village of Șura Mică near Sibiu, where he graduated the arts high school of Sibiu. His poems, short stories, translations and graphics have been published by leading literary magazines in Romania, Germany, Denmark, Canada and the U.S..

He has published eleven books of poems in Romanian, and has also translated into Romanian seven book-length selections of French and German literary works by François Villon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wolf von Aichelburg and Georg Scherg. For his translations of Rilke's poetry, in he won 2000 the LITERART XXI Award. Member of the Writers' Union of Romania and of Exil PEN Germany.