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Anina Ciuciu (1990, Craiova) is a French-Romani author from Romania.

Biography
She was born in Craiova in a quarter that was meant for Roma. Her family doesn't go travelling. Her father is accountant, her mother is a nurse. Aged 7 her father decided to migrate towards France.

A smuggler leaves them alone in the suburbs of Rome, in a camp in the middle of 800 other Roma. In order to survive, she resorted to begging with her mother and sisters. Later on, they departed to France and arrived in July 1997 in a middle sized city called Bourg-en-Bresse. With the help of two women, they found housing, she and her sisters went to school and learned the French language. After a life without legal papers, in secret, her parents found a job and got the residence permits. Since she was successful with her studies, she was allowed in July 2012 to a master in Law at the Sorbonne in Paris where she got a scholarship. Frederic Veille, a journalist of RTL and writer of several biographies convinces her to write a work about her life story. She was interviewed on radio, television and newspapers, about the identity being integrated in the French society with a Romani identity. She is trying to get rid of the prejudices in the public opinion on the community where she comes from. In summer 2013 after she was settled in France, her application of naturalization was accepted. In September 2013, Antoine de Caunes asked her to debate with Eric Clotti in the Grand Journal.