She took her name after Blandiana , near Vinţul De Jos , Alba County , her parents' home village.
- Debut in 1959 , in ''Tribuna'', Cluj-Napoca , signing for the first time as Ana Blandiana, as well as in the Anthology ''30 de poeţi tineri'' (30 Young Poets).
- 1963 - after a four-year interdiction, she again published in ''Contemporanul'', edited by George Ivaşcu .
- 1964 - editorial debut with the booklet of poems ''Persoana intâia plural'' ("First Person Plural"), with a ''Foreword'' written by Nicolae Manolescu .
Imposed herself with ''Calcâiul vulnerabil'' ("Achilles' Heel", 1966 ) and ''A treia taină'' ("The Third Secret", 1969 ).
- 1966 - first appearance in an International Poem Contest (in Lathi, Finland ).
- 1967 - settled in Bucharest .
- 1967 - 1968 - one of the editors for ''Viaţa studenţească''.
- 1968 - 1975 - editor for ''Amfiteatru''.
- 1969 - two televised readings, in the company of Andrei Şerban and the actors Irina Petrescu, Mariana Mihuţ and Florian Pittiş .
- 1975 - 1977 - librarian at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest.
- 1976 - first printing of a French translation, in ''Anthologie du Club des Poètes'', Paris .
- 1978 - took part in the First International Festival of Poetry in Paris.
- In the late 1980s, assuming risks of reprisals of the Communist regime, Blandiana started writing protest poems, in answer to the increasingly harsh demands of the system in general.
- After the Romanian Revolution of 1989 , she entered political life, campaigning for the removal of communist remenants from administrative office, as well as for an Open Society . She left literary work in the background, although she did publish ''Arhitectura valurilor'' ("Waves' Architecture", 1990 ), ''100 de poeme'' ("100 Poems", 1991 ), and ''Sertarul cu aplauze'' ("The Drawer of Applause", prose, 1992 )
- Also published:
- --- ''50 de poeme'', ("50 Poems"), ; ''Întâmplări din grădina mea'' (''Occurencies in My Garden''), 1980 ; ''Ora de nisip'' ("The Hour of Sand"), 1984 ; ''Întâmplări de pe strada mea'' (''Occurencies on My Street''), 1988 ; ''În dimineaţa de după moarte'' ("On the Morning After Dying"), 1996 ; ''La cules îngeri'' ("Angel Gathering"), 1997 ; ''Cartea albă a lui Arpagic'' ("Arpagic's White Book"), 1998
- --- 6 books of essays
- --- 4 books in prose
- Her work was translated into 16 Languages .
- Member of the Writers' Union of Romania
- Member of the European Academy of Poetry
- Chairman of the Romanian PEN Club , after its re-establishment in 1990
- 1994 - Founder and leader of the Civic Alliance Foundation , a Romanian non-party movement, whose aim was to alleviate the consequences of more than fifty years of communism in Romania.
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