Nicolai Costenco (December 21, 1913, Chişinău - July 29, 1993, Chişinău) was a writer from

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. He was managing editor of Viaţa Basarabiei (1934–1940) and was

deported Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The term ''expulsion'' is often used as a synonym for deportation, though expulsion is more often used in the context of international law, while deportation ...

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în 1941.

Grigore Vieru Grigore Vieru (; 14 February 1935, Pererîta, Hotin County, Kingdom of Romania – 18 January 2009, Chișinău, Moldova, Republic of Moldova) was a Moldovans, Moldavian poet, writer and unification of Moldova and Romania, unionist advocate. Known ...

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Biography

Nicolai Costenco was born in Chişinău on December 21, 1913, but his maternal grandparents, Gheorghe and Libeada, brought him up in Cihoreni. He worked for '' Viaţa Basarabiei'' (1934–1940). In 1941 he was

to Siberia because he claimed that there is no difference between the

Moldovan language Moldovan (Romanian alphabet, Latin alphabet: ''limba moldovenească''; Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: лимба молдовеняскэ), also known historically as Moldavian, is one of the two local names of the Romanian language in Moldova. " ...

and the

Romanian language Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: ''limba română'' , or ''românește'', ) is the official and main language of Romania and the Moldova, Republic of Moldova. As a minority language it is spoken by stable communi ...

. In his poem, "Pictează-mi o mirişte",

wrote: "Nicolai Costenco, poetul/ Care şi-a scris poemele/ Pe caietul de gheaţă Siberian"...

PICTEAZA-MI O MIRISTE
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Un crin pentru un poet şi un soldat
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Awards

* Premiul de Stat al Republicii Moldova (1988).

Works

* Poezii (1937), * Ore (1939), * Cleopatra (1939). * Severograd, 1963, * Norocul omului, 1965), * Serghei Lazo, 1967), * Poezii alese (1957), * Poezii noi (1960), * Versuri (1963), * Mugur, mugurel (1967), * Poezii si poeme (1969), * Poezii si poeme (1983), * Euritmii (1990), * Elegii pagane (1998).

Bibliography

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, Un scriitor al rezistenţei şi al continuităţii: Nicolai Costenco (1913–1993), 2004. – 5 ian. *

Mihai Cimpoi Mihai Cimpoi (born 3 September 1942, Larga, Hotin County) is a Moldovan politician, a distinguished cultural scientist, Romanian academician, critic and literary historian, eminescologist, literary editor and Bessarabian essayist. ''"Emeritus of ...

, "Alte disocieri", Chapter Nicolai Costenco, Chişinău, Ed. Cartea moldoveneasca, 1971. * Vasile Badiu, Eroul traditional in ipostaze noi. In cartea: Eroul con temporan in literatura moldoveneasca, Chişinău, Ed. Stiinta, 1972. *

Mihail Dolgan Mihail Dolgan (5 February 1939 – 2 May 2013) was a professor and researcher from Moldova, member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Overview His speciality is the Romanian contemporary literature and he is a member of the "Department o ...

, Sunt cetatean al tarii poeziei. In cartea lui: Crez si maiestrie artistica, Chişinău, Ed. Cartea moldoveneasca, 1982; Lirica din perioada exilului siberian. In Literatura si arta, 1995, 26 ianuarie. *

Ion Ciocanu Ion Ciocanu (18 January 1940 – 2 July 2021) was a Moldovan literary critic. Biography Ion Ciocanu was born on January 18, 1940, in Tabani, Briceni, then in Romania. Ion Ciocanu graduated from Moldova State University in 1962 and got his PhD ...

, Cetatean al tarii poeziei. In cartea: Nicolai Costenco, Euritmii, Chişinău, Ed. Hyperion, 1990. *

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, Istoria literaturii romane de la origini pana in prezent, p. 1031. *

, "PICTEAZA-MI O MIRISTE" ("Nicolai Costenco, poetul/ Care şi-a scris poemele/ Pe caietul de gheaţă Siberian")

References

External links

NICOLAI F. COSTENCO, EXILATUL DEDUBLAT

Revista Timpul
Nicolai Costenco 90, Un scriitor al rezistenţei şi al continuităţii
Referat Nicolai Costenco
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