Grigore Vieru

Grigore Vieru was born on 14 February 1935 in Pererîta, in the then Romanian county of Hotin, into a peasant family. After the school in Lipcani, he graduated in 1958 from the Ion Creangă pedagogical institute in Chișinău, in philology and history, wrote a great deal for children and was an editor at the magazine Scînteia leninistă, at the magazine Nistru, then at the publishing house Cartea Moldovenească. An honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 1990 and a corresponding member in 1993, he died in Chișinău on 18 January 2009.

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• PoetryNumele tăuGrigore Vieru · 1968not translated into EnglishLiterature