Moldovan writer, museum curator says his happinness is to see people nice

Chisinau, 7 March /MOLDPRES/ - Poet and prose writer, director and founder of the Alexei Mateevici Museum from the Zaim village, Causeni district, Ion Gaina, has recently edited a prose book titled, Călătorie în sufletul copilăriei (Travel to the soul of childhood). At present, along with the Christian community, he is building a church of all Romanian saints at the headquarters of the complex of the monk Ioan Zlotea from the Salcuta village, the same district. ‘’My happiness is to see the people nice,’’ Ion Gaina said.       

Contacted by MOLDPRES, Ion Gaina noted that the aforementioned book comprised autobiographic prose, was a bilingual, Romanian-English edition and had 256 pages. Presently, his book of prose and poetry titled, Pe pământ și în cer – urmele (On the earth and in the heaven- traces), which has 104 pages, is going to appear at a publishing house from Chisinau. Gaina also published prose and poetry in the anthology, Mama mea – o icoană (My Mother – an Icon), created by Ana Onica and in the anthology titled, Universum – the literature of the Romanians from everywhere, from Canada.      

According to Ion Gaina, the construction of the church from Salcuta had started in 2019. ‘’Now, we put the roof of the church. This church is a true jewelry. We built it with financial means collected from people of Moldova and Romania, from the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who knew and listened to monk Ioan Zlotea and who were also healed, as he was a thaumaturgist, i.e. healer of various diseases, born in Salcuta. The monk passed away in 1928, was buried at the Hierarchical Vine Monastery from Chisinau and in 1969, he was reburied in the Dobrogea village, Chisinau municipality,’’ the writer specified.    

Ion Gaina was born in the Salcuta village, Causeni district, on 30 October 1962. In 1984, he graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University from Chisinau. Subsequently, Gaina worked as teacher of Romanian language and literature at the secondary school from Zaim till 1995. In 1992-2002, Ion Gaina taught a special course of Romanian literature at the A. Mateevici theoretical lyceum from Causeni. In 1995-1999, he was author of a course of creativity and rhetoric, The Word, at the Prometeu Experimental Lyceum of Creativity and Invention from the capital and in 1996, he taught the same course at the lyceum of modern languages and management from Chisinau.    

Starting from 1999, he has been member of the Moldovan Writers’ Union. In 2001, Ion Gaina was awarded the honorific title of Merited Man of Moldova.