Otilia Cazimir  Otilia Cazimir (pen name of Alexandra Gavrilescu; February 12, 1894 – June 8, 1967) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, translator and publicist, nicknamed the "poetess of gentle souls", known as a children's poems author. Born in Cotu Vameș, Neamț County, she was the fifth child of schoolteachers Gheorghe Gavrilescu and his wife Ecaterina ("née" Petrovici). She attended middle and high school in Iași and took courses at Iași University's literature and philosophy faculty, but did not graduate. Her pen name, which she never liked, was selected by her mentors Mihail Sadoveanu and Garabet Ibrăileanu: the former came up with "Otilia", the latter with "Cazimir". She was quoted as saying: "Allow me to confess to you, after so many years, that this name, that I still bore in dignity, I never liked. I have nothing in common with the heroines of German legends, and the first Otilia that I have ever met, the little girl I shared a school bench in first grade, was stupid, fat and pimply...". She is known to have also utilised other pen names, such as Alexandra Casian, Ofelia, Magda or Dona Sol, which she used to sign in the press, particularly her more "feminist" works. In 1912, she made her debut with poems in "Viața Românească", to which she remained a loyal contributor. Other magazines that published her work include "Însemnări ieșene", "Adevărul literar și artistic", "Lumea", "Bilete de Papagal", "Iașul nou", "Iașul literar", "Orizont", "Gazeta literară" and "Cronica". Her first book was the 1923 poetry volume "Lumini și umbre", followed by "Fluturi de noapte" (1926) and "Cântec de comoară" (1931). Cazimir's poems focus on the universe becoming domestic, while in its turn, the domestic perpetuates the cosmic. Her prose books were "Din întuneric.