Great Romanian poet commemorated at 132nd anniversary of death in Moldovan capital

Chisinau, 15 June /MOLDPRES/ - Poet Mihai Eminescu today was commemorated in Chisinau on the occasion of the 132nd anniversary of his death.  

Writers, culture and art people, representatives of the central and local public administration and people fond of poetry today morning laid flowers at the bust to Mihai Eminescu on the Alley of Classics of the Romanian Literature in the Stefan cel Mare Public Garden from Chisinau. The event was followed by a musical and literary recital.    

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the head of the Moldovan Writers’ Union, Arcadie Suceveanu, said that Mihai Eminescu had been and remained our contemporary. ‘’He is always up-to-date and conveys us immortal artistic beauties, modeling truths, which show who are we in history, what happens to our human values,’’ Suceveanu stressed.       

In the context, the deputy head of the Moldovan Writers’ Union, Teo Chiriac, said that the spirit of Eminescu was everywhere. ‘’His works will always be topical,’’ Teo Chiriac emphasized.   

Mihai Eminescu, regarded by the posthumous literary criticism as the most important poetic voice of the Romanian literature, was born in Botosani, Romania, on 15 January 1950. He died on 15 June 1889. The poet was buried at the Bellu Cemetery from Bucharest. In 1948, Mihai Eminescu was posthumously elected member of the Romanian Academy.