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George Meniuc

Died in 1987

George Meniuc was born on 20 May 1918 in Chișinău. After the Mihai Eminescu secondary school, he studied literature and philosophy in Bucharest from 1937 to 1940, under Tudor Vianu, and returned to Chișinău in June 1940. Evacuated to the Soviet Union during the war, he was afterwards editor-in-chief of the journal Nistru, from 1957 to 1959. Winner of the State Prize of Soviet Moldavia in 1972 and named People's Writer in 1982, he died on 8 February 1987.

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