Marioara Banuș was a Romanian poet, essayist, prose writer and translator.
Born into a Jewish family in Bucharest, her parents were Max Banuș, an accountant and later a director at the Carol Street branch of Marmorosch Blank Bank, and his wife Anette (née Marcus). Due to her fragile health, she began primary school with private lessons, taking tests at the Lucaci Street School from 1920 to 1923.
She attended high school at the Pompilian Institute from 1923 to 1931, and from 1931 to 1934, studied at the University of Bucharest's faculties of law and literature. She made her published debut as an adolescent, with the poem "14 ani", which appeared in Bilete de Papagal in 1928, under her birth name Marioara Banuș. In 1932, while she was a student
Laura Francisca Pavel a publicat în 2022 volumul de poezie Trucuri urbane (Premiul BAC-FEST pentru Cartea de poezie a anului 2022). Versiunea în limba franceză, cu titlul Scénarios urbains, în traducerea semnată de Gabrielle Danoux, a apărut în 2024 la Nombre7 Éditions.
În 2023 îi apare volumul de poezie Acţiuni şi protocoale, la OMG, iar în 2024 publică, tot la OMG, volumul Zona de surescitare.
Semnează, cu numele Laura Pavel, mai multe volume de teorie şi de critică literară şi teatrală.
