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| THE POET OF THE ROMANIAN SOUL 19/01/2009 |
| (2009-01-19) |
| Last updated: 2009-01-20 15:05 EET |
One of the greatest contemporary Romanian writers, Grigore Vieru, 73, passed away on Sunday to occupy his eternal place in the pantheon of the great values of the Romanian national culture. He was born in 1930s Romania which included Bessarabia, a historical province annexed and transformed in 1940 by the USSR into a Soviet Republic. For many years he dreamt of returning to Romania and after 1990, when Moldova became independent, he hoped to see all Romanian territories united after the German model.
He was a staunch defender of the Romanian language in front of the many attempts of Russification and promoted the awakening of the national culture in a Republic of Moldova politically dominated by the Communists. He was, as President Traian Basescu said in a message of condolence “a voice of the Romanian conscience”. A member of the Romanian Academy, Vieru was nominated by this institution for the Nobel Peace prize in 1992. Academy member Razvan Teodorescu said about Grigore Vieru’s personality:
“Grigore Vieru is, at a time when the Romanian movement, the concept of Romanian, the idea of the noble Romanian language is no longer of real importance to some cultural and political personalities, the harbinger of a generation of Romanians who kept the idea of nation alive and fought for it.”
Nicolae Dabija, a writer and journalist from Cishinau, was his colleague, and he deplores the death of a man who was a symbol for the Romanians in Bessarabia:
“Vieru had a huge role in bringing closer the two banks of river Prut. He fought for the Romanian language, for the switch to the Romanian alphabet, for the Romanian identity. He was one of the initiators of the “flower bridges” linking the two countries. All his achievements are like monuments, like statues he erected during his life. He was more than a poet, he was both a poet and a militant, in a way he was the symbol of an estranged Bessarabia.”
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