Moldova marks 120th birthday anniversary of poetess

Chisinau, 1 January /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova marks the 120th birthday anniversary of poet Liuba Dimitriu.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, writer Calina Trifan said that, while suffering from an incurable disease, Liuba Dimitriu chose a form of survival – poetry. Writer Marcela Mardare, who edited a book of the departed poetess, said that, by her poetry, Liuba Dimitriu had been ‘’a lily of Bessarabia’’.  

Liuba Dimitriu was born in the Ciucur-Mingir village, Tighina county, on 1 January 1901, to a father Bulgarian and a Greek mother. She finished the lyceum from Comrat and then settled in Chisinau. The poetess worked here at the Archiepiscopate (1916), at the Chisinau city hall as translator (1919-1923) and at the Prefect’s Office of the Police (1923-1930). Dimitriu wrote poems since the age of 18.  

Liuba Dimitriu died at the Varatec Monastery on 22 March 1930. She was buried at the Central Cemetery on the Armeneasca Street from Chisinau. The posthumous volume titled Crinii Basarabiei (The Lilies of Bessarabia) was published in 1931. In 2011, the same book by the poetess was printed at the Pontos Publishing House. Presently, a street bears her name in the Moldovan capital.    

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