Bantoș Ana
Main achievement
Between 2011 and 2013, he/she participated in the elaboration of the General Dictionary of Romanian Literature, within the Romanian Academy.
About
Ana Bantoș is a renowned literary critic and historian from the Republic of Moldova, born on April 7, 1951, in the village of Chirianca, Strășeni district. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the State University of Chișinău in 1973 and continued her academic training with a doctorate in philology obtained in 1998 at the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, under the supervision of academician Constantin Ciopraga. In 2010, she obtained the title of doctor habilitatus in philology, thus consolidating an exceptional academic career in the field of Romanian literature. Throughout her career, Ana Bantoș held important positions at the Institute of Language and Literature (later renamed the "B. P. Hasdeu" Institute of Romanian Philology) of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, where she climbed successive steps from laboratory assistant to coordinating scientific researcher and director (2007-2009). In parallel, she worked as a lecturer at the State University of Moldova and, since 2013, at the "Alecu Russo" State University of Bălți, supervising doctoral theses within the Doctoral School of Philology. She was also the deputy editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal "Limba Română" and has been active at the "Nichita Stănescu" House of the Romanian Language in Chișinău since its inauguration in 1998. Her critical work stands out for modernizing literary discourse and for efforts to recover and reintegrate Bessarabian literature into the general circuit of Romanian literature. The author has published several fundamental monographs, including "The Dynamics of the Sacred in Contemporary Bessarabian Poetry" (2000), "Recovering the Authentic" (2006), and "Opening Towards Universalism. Romanian Literature from Post-War Bessarabia" (2010), works appreciated by renowned critics such as Mihai Cimpoi and Constantin Ciopraga. She actively collaborates with specialized magazines in Moldova and Romania, and since 2013, she has been hosting the radio show "One Land and Two Heavens" on Radio România Chișinău, dedicated to literary criticism and history. The distinguished researcher is a member of the Writers' Union of Moldova and the Writers' Union of Romania, and her work has been honored with multiple awards and orders of merit.
