Grigore Vieru (; 14 February 1935,
Pererîta,
Hotin County
Hotin County was a county (ținut is Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, județ after) in the Principality of Moldavia (1359–1812), the Bessarabia Governorate, Governorate of Bessarabia (1812–1917), the Moldavian Democratic Republic (1917–19 ...
,
Kingdom of Romania
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– 18 January 2009,
Chișinău
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,
Republic of Moldova
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) was a
Moldavian poet, writer and
unionist advocate. Known for his poems and books for children. His poetry is characterized by vivid natural scenery, patriotism, as well as a venerated image of the sacred mother. Vieru wrote in the
Romanian language
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. In 1993 he was elected a correspondent member of the
Romanian Academy
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According to its byl ...
.
Early life
He was born in
Pererîta village,
Hotin County
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, at the time, part of
Romania
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(today part of
Briceni district
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History
The first documentary attestation dates back ...
, Moldova). His parents, Pavel and Eudochia Vieru (''née'' Didic) were farmers.
In 1950, he graduated from the 7-grade school of his native village, after which he attended the middle school in
Lipcani
Lipcani (; uk, Липкани, russian: Липканы, yi, ליפקאַן ''Lipkon'') is a town in Briceni District, Moldova. It is also a border crossing between Moldova and Romania.
Overview
Lipcani is located on the banks of the Prut ...
, which he graduated in 1953.
Personal life
Vieru was married to Raisa Vieru since 1959; they had two sons, Teodor and
Călin Vieru
Călin Vieru (born 29 June 1965) is a Moldovan politician.
Biography
Călin Vieru was born to Raisa and Grigore Vieru. He has been a member of the Parliament of Moldova since May 2009.
External links
Scandal în familia Vieru
Site-ul Parla ...
.
Creative work
His first publishing debut was in 1957, a booklet of poems for children, «''Alarma»'' («''Alarm''»), appreciated by literary critics.The following year, Vieru graduated from the
Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University
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The charge of an electron is considered to be negative by convention and this charge is equal and opposite to the charge of a proton, which is considered to be positive by conven ...
in
Chișinău
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with a degree in history and philology. He was employed as an editor in the magazine called «''Scînteia Leninistă»'' (''«The Leninist Spark»'') designed for children, currently it is called «''Noi»'' («''We»''), and the newspaper «''Tînărul leninist''» («''The Young Leninist»''), currently «''Florile Dalbe»'' («''Glowing Flowers»'').
In 1959, he became editor at the «''Nistru» («''
Dniester»'') magazine, currently «''Basarabia»'', a publication of the
Writers' Union of Moldova
The Writers' Union of Moldova () is a professional association of writers in Moldova.
Mihai Cimpoi has been the president of the Writers' Union of Moldova since 1991.
External links
Uniunea Scriitorilor din Republica MoldovaC. Tănase Scriso ...
.
From 1960 to 1963, he served as editor in chief of the «''Cartea Moldovenească»'' («Moldavian book») publishing house.
In 1967, Vieru's book «Poetry for Readers of All Ages» (published in 1965) was awarded the Moldavian Prize for Youth Literature. The following year, his book «Your Name» became part of the contemporary literature curriculum in Moldavian universities
He wrote another children's story/picture book «Bread and Dew» which features Doru, a 4 or 5-year-old boy who lives in Chișinău with his parents.
Many moldavian composers were inspired by the poetry of Grigore Vieru (songbook «Poftim de intrați», «Cine crede» etc.), the poet himself is the author of a lot of melodies («Să crești mare» etc.) and since 1964 he began to collaborate with composer
Yulia Tsibulskaya («Soare, soare», «Clopoțeii», «Stea-stea, logostea», «Ramule-neamule», «Cîntînd cu iubire» etc.).
He was a frequent guest of the «Poetry House»in
Cociulia village,
Cantemir District
Cantemir () is a district () in the south of Moldova, with the administrative center at Cantemir.
As of January 1, 2011, its population was 62,800.
History
Localities with the earliest documentary attestation of the district are: Haragîș, ...
. The famous book for preschoolers «''Albinuța»'' was also written here.
1968 was turning point for the poet's destiny; this year became remarkable by the volume of lyrical «''Numele Tău''» («Your name»), with an introductory written by
Ion Druță
Ion Druță (3 September 1928 – 28 September 2023), also known as Ion Drutse, was a Moldovan writer, poet, playwright and literary historian. He was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
Biography
Ion Druță was born on 3 September 192 ...
. The book was appreciated by literary critics as the most original poetic appearance. In the year of it publishing, it became a subject of the study at the university within the courses designated for the contemporary national literature. Three poems in the volume are entitled: ''
Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi (; 21 May 1880 – 14 July 1967) was a Romanian writer, best known for his unique contribution to poetry and children's literature. Born Ion N. Theodorescu in Bucharest, he explained that his pen name was related to ''Argesis'', th ...
'', ''
Lucian Blaga
Lucian Blaga (; 9 May 1895 – 6 May 1961) was a Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright, poetry translator and novelist. He was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the interbellum period.
Biography
Blaga was born on 9 May 1895 ...
'',
''Brâncuși'', and another two are dedicated to
Nicolae Labiș
Nicolae Labiș () (December 2, 1935 in Poiana Mărului, Suceava County, Romania – December 22, 1956 in Bucharest) was a Romanian poet.
Early life
His father, Eugen, was the son of a forest brigade soldier and himself fought in World War II; h ...
and
Marin Sorescu
Marin Sorescu (; 29 February 1936 – 8 December 1996) was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist.
His works were translated into more than 20 countries, and the total number of his books that were published abroad rises up to 60 books. He ha ...
. For the first time, in the post war period, such dedications has appeared in the Bessarabian lyrics.
Political activity
Since 1971, Grigore Vieru has been a member of
Komsomol Organisation, the youth division of the
Communist Party
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.
In 1973, Grigore Vieru has passed the
Prut
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Characteristics
The Prut originates ...
within a delegation of Soviet writers. He participated in the meeting with the editors of the «20th Century» magazine: Dan Haulică,
Ștefan Augustin Doinaș
Ștefan Augustin Doinaș (; pen name of Ștefan Popa) (April 26, 1922 – May 25, 2002) was a Romanian Neoclassical poet of the Communist era.
Doinaș was born in Cherechiu, Bihor County. After completing high school in Arad, he studied philol ...
, Ioanichie Olteanu, Geo Șerban, Tatiana Nicolescu. At his request, he has visited monasteries of
Putna,
Voroneț,
Sucevița
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,
Dragomirna,
Văratec. He returned to Chișinău with a bag of books. Later the poet makes the following confession:
In 1974 and 1977, invited by the president of the
Romanian Writers' Union
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, Vieru visited
Bucharest
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,
Constanța
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,
Iași
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, and cities in
Transylvania
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.
In 1978, the «
Junimea» publishing house printed «The Friday Star», Vieru's first work published in
Romania
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.
In 1989 he was elected member of
Moldova's Parliament and campaigned for the
unification of Romania and Moldova
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. The following year he was elected Honorary Member of the
Romanian Academy
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According to its byl ...
. In 1992, the Romanian Academy recommended Vieru for the
Nobel Peace Prize
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.
In 1995, he became a member of the Board of the
Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company
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, and in 1996 he won several Romanian literary awards.
In 2000, Vieru was awarded the «
Eminescu» Medal by the
Romanian government
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Involvement in the Bessarabia National Liberation Movement
At the end of the
80s
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, Grigore Vieru is in the first line of the National Liberation Movement in Bessarabia, his texts (including the songs laid on his lyrics) playing a big role in awakening of the national consciousness of Romanians in Bessarabia. Vieru is one of the founders of the People's Front of Moldova and is among the organizers and leaders of the Great National Assembly of August 27, 1989. He actively participates in the debates of the 13th session of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR, in which the
Romanian language
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is voted as the official language and the transition to Latin spelling.
Death
On January 16, 2009 Vieru suffered a serious traffic accident
Death Of A Moldovan Poet
rferl.org and was admitted to the Emergency Hospital in Chișinău. Grigore Vieru was in critical condition with polytrauma, closed cranio-cerebral trauma, cerebral contusion, and closed chest trauma, contusion of the heart and lungs and contusion of the abdominal organs, with minimal chances of survival. The road accident took place on the night of January 15 to 16, at 1:30 am on the R-3 route Chișinău – Hâncești – Cimișlia – Basarabeasca. At the driver’s seat was Gheorghe Munteanu, emeritus artist of the Republic of Moldova and deputy director of the "Joc" folk dance troop of Chișinău, who being in an easier state. At the time, he was out with friends celebrating the birthday of Mihai Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu (; born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romanian Romantic poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active membe ...
, a 19th-century Romanian poet. Vieru died on January 18, 2009, in the Emergency Hospital in Chișinău two days after the accident, following a cardiac failure from which he could not be resuscitated.
Grigore Vieru was buried on January 20, 2009, in Chișinău, at the Central Cemetery on Armeana street. The funeral was attended by tens of thousands of people, ''the divisions of Grigore Vieru'', as professor Dan Dungaciu called them in his article. Chișinău had not known such funerals since the burial of the spouses Doina and Ion Aldea Teodorovici. The day of January 20, 2009, was declared a day of mourning in the Republic of Moldova, at 10:00 the whole republic having a moment of silence. Vieru's funeral was also broadcast live by Teleradio Moldova.
Legacy
Several schools in the Republic of Moldova, a boulevard in Chișinău and a street in Iași are called in honour of Grigore Vieru. On February 11, 2010, three days before his birthday, the poet's bust was installed in the Alley of Classics.
A street in Buzău
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is called in honour of Grigore Vieru: ''Grigore Vieru Street''.
Awards
In 1996 he won several Romanian literary awards, and in the same year on August 23, he won Order of the Republic (Moldova)
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.
The Romanian president Traian Băsescu
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has posthumously awarded Grigore Vieru with the Order of the Star of Romania
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, Grand Cross.
Moments in Vieru's life
In the volume of lyrics designed for children ''"Trei iezi"'' (''Three baby goats'') published in 1970, there was also the poem called ''"Curcubeul"'' (''The Rainbow''), in which Vieru, used the metaphor of the rainbow with three colours, praised the flag of all Romanians. In short period of time after the book publishing, the Soviet censorship withdrew the book from the bookstores, and the author was accused of diversion. Also in 1970, has appeared ''The Abecedarul'' book developed by Vieru in collaboration with the writer Spiridon Vangheli. Even nowadays, this textbook, which was edited many times over time, still teaches the first class little Bessarabians. In 1989, Vieru and Vangheli also made the Latin alphabet version of ''The Abecedarul''.
Vieru wrote, among many others, the lyrics for the soundtrack of the cartoon film ''Maria, Mirabela
''Maria, Mirabela'' is a live-action/animated film jointly produced by Romanian and Soviet movie studios. The Romanian premiere took place on December 21, 1981 in Bucharest, The Soviet premiere took place on March 3, 1982 in Moscow.
''Maria, Mi ...
'', and the Vieru’s poem ''"Dragă Otee"'' (''Dear Otee'') has been sung by Iurie Sadovnic. Later, the song was taken over by Zdob și Zdub
Zdob și Zdub (; , onomatopoeia, onomatopoeic for the sound of a drum beat) is a Moldovan folk punk band, based in Chișinău. The band Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv ...
.
In 1988, in the newspaper '' Literatura şi Arta'' (''Literature and Art'') in Chișinău, the first Latin-written text from post-war Bessarabia has appeared. The author was Grigore Vieru.
In June 1989, Vieru has got the approval of the Soviet authorities to publish the weekly ''Literatura si Arta'' in Latin writing, the editors of the newspaper mentioned that in all Soviet Moldova there were no typewriter of Latin letters, except the one from the Academy of Sciences of the MSSR and of professor Iulius Popa from Bălți
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. Under these conditions, Grigore Vieru and the editor-in-chief of ''Literatura și Arta'', Nicolae Dabija, went to Bucharest
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to get the typewriter for the newspaper. The Romanian authorities were delaying the answer, and the antiquarian shop from which they could buy such a device was closed these days because of some technical issues. However, Vieru and Dabija were helped by the priest Vasile Țepordei, who brought to the station a bag containing the 31 metallic signs of the Latin alphabet, cut by him from his own typewriter. In Chișinău, the Latin signs are welded to a typewriter instead of the Cyrillic ones, so ''Literatura și Arta'' magazine became the first newspaper of Bessarabia to start systematically coming out in Latin spelling.
In 1994, the neo-communists of the Democratic Agrarian Party, who came to power in Moldova, gave up to the state hymn ''Deșteaptă-te, române!
"" ("Awaken Thee, Romanian!"; ) is the national anthem of Romania and former national anthem of Moldova.
The lyrics were composed by Andrei Mureșanu (1816–1863), and the music was popular (it was chosen for the poem by Gheorghe Ucenescu, as ...
'' (''Awaken thee, Romanian!'') and proposed to the poet Grigore Vieru and the composer Eugen Doga
Eugen Doga (born 1 March 1937) is a Romanian and Russian composer from the Republic of Moldova.
A creator of three ballets "Luceafărul", "Venancia", "Queen Margot", the opera "Dialogues of Love", more than 100 instrumental and choral works – ...
to compose the lyrics and music for a new hymn. They both refused. Grigore Vieru wrote in the ''Literatura și Arta'' magazine the following:
Works
* 1957 – ''"Alarma"'' (''Alarm'') (lyrics for children);
* 1958 – ''"Muzicuțe"'' (''Musical notes'') (lyrics for children);
* 1961 – ''"Făt-Frumos curcubeul și Bună ziua, fulgilor!"'' (''Făt-Frumos the rainbow and Good morning, the flakes!'') by the "Cartea Moldovenească" publishing house;
* 1963 – ''"Mulțumim pentru pace"'' (''Thanks for peace'') (lyrics) and ''"Făgurași"'' (lyrics, stories and songs);
* 1964 - The magazine ''"Nistru"'' published the poem ''"Legământ"'' (''The Covenan''), dedicated to poet Mihai Eminescu;
* 1965 – ''"Versuri pentru cititorii de toate vârstele"'' (''The lyrics for readers of all ages''), with an introductory word written by Ion Druță and for this lyrics the poet was awarded ''The Comsomol Republican Prize'' in the field of children's and youth literature (1967);
* 1967 – ''"Poezii de seama voastră"'' (''Poems of your age'') ("Lumina" publishing house);
* 1968 – ''"Bărbații Moldovei"'' (''Moldova’s Men''), designed to the "nationalist" Nicolae Testimițeanu ("Nistru" magazine). The whole circulation was stopped, and the dedication taken away;
* 1969 – ''"Duminica cuvintelor"'' (''The Words of Sunday'') by "Lumina" publishing house with illustrations by Igor Vieru, a book much loved by pre-schoolers, which is present in every kindergarten;
* 1970 - ''"Abecedarul"'' ("Lumina" publishing house) - in collaboration with Spiridon Vangheli and painter Igor Vieru;
* 1972 – ''"Trei iezi"'' (''Three baby goats'');
* 1974 – ''"Aproape"'' (''Nearby'') (lyrics, with color illustrations by Isai Cârmu);
* 1975 – ''"Mama"'' (''The Mother'') ("Lumina" publishing house - book for the little ones, illustrated by Igor Vieru);
* 1976 – ''"Un verde ne vede!"''(''A green one sees us!'') ("Lumina" publishing house – for this volume of lyrics the poem is awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Moldova (1978);
* 1989 – ''"Metafore Albastre"'' - ''Сини метафори'' (''The Blue metaphors'') - ("Narodna cultura" publishing house, Sofia
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- in the collection Globus poetic, translation into Bulgarian
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* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
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* Bul ...
by Ognean Stamboliev;
* 2010 – ''"Mi-e dor de piatră"'' - ''Жал ми е за камъка'' (''I miss the stone'') – publishing house Avangardprint, Bulgaria - translation into Bulgarian and preface by Ognean Stamboliev - 100 poems.
It is present in:
* Streiflicht – Eine Auswahl zeitgenössischer rumänischer Lyrik (81 rumänische Autoren), - "Lumina piezișă" (''Pie light'') the bilingual anthology consisted of 81 Romanian writers, translated by Christian W. Schenk, Dionysos Verlag 1994,
Music on lyrics by Vieru
Maria Mirabela
Dragă Otee
Pentru Ea
Răsai
Eminescu
La mănăstirea Căpriana (Clopotul Învierii)
Lăsați-ne în legea noastră
Două lacrimi gemene (Chișinău și București)
O serenadă
Melancolie
Ultima oră
Reaprindeți candela
Mi-e dor de tine, mamă
Codrul e frumos cu floare
Gallery
File:Grigore Vieru monument in Soroca park.jpg, Grigore Vieru in Soroca
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File:Grigore Vieru din Bălți.jpg, Alley of Classics, Bălți
File:Galati biblioteca din Eurogara CFR Calatori.jpg, Eurostation of Galați
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Grigore Vieru library
See also
* Unification of Romania and Moldova
The unification of Moldova and Romania is a popular concept in the two countries that began in the late 1980s, during the Revolutions of 1989. The Romanian Revolution in 1989 and the independence of Moldova in 1991 further contributed to the ...
References
External links
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Grigore Vieru – virtual monument
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Valerian Ciobanu-Vieru: Pe cer a mai urcat o stea
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La moartea lui Grigore Vieru
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GRIGORE VIERU - Evocare de NICOLAE DABIJA
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