Moldovan poet edits poetry book
16:53 | 10.01.2023 Category: Culture
Chisinau, 10 January /MOLDPRES/ - A book of poems titled, Terasa galbenă (The Yellow Terrace) by poet, laureate of Moldova’s National Prize and Mihai Eminescu Prize of the Romanian Academy Arcadie Suceveanu, has recently appeared at a publishing house from Chisinau.
Contacted by MOLDPRES, Arcadie Suceveanu said the volume had 134 pages and appeared in a number of 300 copies.
Arcadie Suceveanu was born in the Suceveni village, Hliboca (Adancata) district, Chernivtsi region, Ukraine, on 16 November 1952. In 1974, he graduated from the State University of Chernivtsi, Philology Faculty, section of Romanian language and Literature. Suceveanu was elected USM deputy head in 1990. As of 2005, he was elected secretary and then head of the Chisinau Branch of the Writers’ Union from Romania. Starting from 2010 till 2021, Suceveanu acted as head of the Moldovan Writers’ Union.
He debuted as poet in 1968. Suceveanu is present with poems in anthologies from Belarus, France, Italy, North Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine and other countries. He translated works by Tolstoy, Aytmatov, Gorky into Romanian.
Arcadie Suceveanu was awarded the Mihai Eminescu Prize of the Romanian Academy (1997), National Prize of Moldova (1998), Prize of the Romanian Writers’ Union (2016), Prize of the Moldovan Writers’ Union (1987, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002), the honorific title Master of Literature (2001), Mihai Eminescu (2000), the Labour Glory order (2010) and the Order of Honour (2012).
