George Meniuc was a writer from Moldova

Moldova

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Biography

George Meniuc was born on May 20, 1918, in Chişinău

Chisinau

Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...

. He graduate from the University of Bucharest

University of Bucharest

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; his professors were Tudor Vianu

Tudor Vianu

Tudor Vianu was a Romanian literary critic, art critic, poet, philosopher, academic, and translator. Known for his left-wing and anti-fascist convictions, he had a major role on the reception and development of Modernism in Romanian literature and art...

, Petre P. Negulescu, Dimitrie Gusti

Dimitrie Gusti

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, Mircea Florian

Mircea Florian

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. In 1940, he returned to Chişinău George Meniuc was editor in chief of Nistru, a newspaper of the Moldovan Writers' Union

Moldovan Writers' Union

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George Meniuc died on February 8, 1987 and was buried in Chişinău

Chisinau

Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...

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Awards

• Premiul de Stat al RSSM pentru literatură, 1972.
• "Scriitor al poporului din Moldova", 1982.

Works

Poems

• Cântecul zorilor (1948)
• Poezii (1954)
• Strofe lirice (1956)
• Poeme (1957)
• Versuri alese (1958)
• Vremea Lerului (1969),
• Florile dalbe (1979),
• Toamna lui Orfeu (1983).

Essays:

• Imaginea în artă (1940),
• Iarba fiarelor (1959),
• Cadran solar (1966),
• Eseuri (1967).
• Vulpea isteaţă, Editura Prut Internaţional, Chişinău ; ISBN 9975-69-354-7

External links

• România Literară
  România Literară
  România literară is a cultural and literary magazine from România founded in 1855 by Vasile Alecsandri and published in Iași between January 1, 1855 until December 3, 1855, when it was suppressed. The new series appeared in October 10, 1855 as a continuation of Gazeta literară...
  
  , George Meniuc