Laura Iancu (1978, Magyarfalu, or Arini in Romanian), is a Hungarian writer, poet, and ethnographer. She grew up in the Csángó Land in central Romania and then attended the Nagy István School of Fine Arts in Csíkszereda (or Miercurea Ciuc in Romanian). In Budapest, she graduated as a kindergarten teacher, a religious teacher, and a political communication teacher. She then studied ethnography at the University of Szeged and completed a doctorate at the Department of Ethnography and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pécs. She has been publishing since 2000, and between 2006 and 2016, she served as a member of the staff of the cultural magazine Moldvai Magyarság (Hungarian Culture in Moldavia) in Csíkszereda. Since 2011, she has been a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnography, formerly part of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, but since 2021 part of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network. In her research, she focuses on the religious and cultural identity of the Hungarians of Moldavia. She is a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Her most important awards are:

The András Bálint Publicist Award (2004)

The Grand Prize of the Tokaj Writers’ Camp (2008),

The István Bella Prize (2010)

The Tamás Falu Prize (2011)

The Attila József Prize (2012)

The János Jankó Prize (2013)

The József Ratkó Prize (2020