Moldova-born writer settled in France launches novel in Chisinau

Chisinau, 8 February /MOLDPRES/ - A book titled, Mireasa din Kabul (The Bride from Kabul), signed by writer and investigation journalist Olga Capatina, who participated in the Afghanistan and Transnistria wars, was born in Moldova and has been settled in France for more years, was launched at the National Library today.     

The book comprises 272 pages and was translated from the Russian language into  Romanian by journalist Ion Tabuleac.

In her preface, the author of the book’s preface, Calina Trifan, said that Mireasa din Kabul brought for consideration a delicate and sensitive subject: the bitter experience, the dramatic situation of women who worked in army, concretely in the Afghanistan war. “It is no longer a secret that women’s situation in the war  was/is much tougher that the one of the men soldiers. As any woman in a conflict-stricken zone, for one or another reason, faces (ontologically?) two dangers: the first one is the danger of death and the second is the sexual harassment on behalf chiefs and soldiers. The peak of everything is that there is also the third danger: to go through a moral depreciation in the eyes of the society,” Calina Trifan stressed.       

For her part, the director of the National Library, Elena Pintilei, said the novel  tackled a world of the woman who had survived the war. “Our request is that the author should further write, as the novel demands to be continued,” Pintilei noted.   

Literary critics Maria Pilchin and Aliona Gratii, writer Claudia Partole, journalist Ion Tabuleac, etc. referred to the work. At the event, singer Valy Boghean gave a recital with lyrics by protagonist of the book launch.    

Olga Capatana was born in the Lencauti village, northern Ocnita district, in 1954. She graduated from the Philology Faculty of the Balti-based Alecu Russo State University. Capatana worked as officer in the Soviet Army and after the collapse of the USSR – in the National Army. She participated in the Afghanistan war and the war for the defence of Moldova’s territorial integrity and independence. After she had returned from the war, Olga Capatana started writing poems, novels, books for children and The Memories of Those Who Died in Afghanistan and The Memories of Those Who Died in Transnistria, translated in the Russian and French languages. According to editors and literary critics, the works are full of emotional charge, having as leit motifs: the man, war, destiny, love.    

In 2004, Olga Capatana emigrated to France, where she has lived till present and works as investigation journalist. She is member of the Moldovan Writers Union and member of the Union of Professional Journalists from Romania. Olga Capatana was awarded the golden medal of the French International Academy.