Moldovan writer passes away
19:30 | 13.05.2021 Category: Culture
Chisinau, 13 May /MOLDPRES/ - Writer Ion Vicol was paid the last respects today. The prose writer died because of COVID-19 on 10 May.
Contacted by MOLDPRES, poet, adviser of the Moldovan Writers’ Union Titus Stirbu, said that Ion Vicol was a writer who had dealt with the oldest history of Moldova. ‘’His novel, The Night of Saint Andrew, was translated into more languages. The work was to appear in Greece as well, where the author was invited,’’ Titus Stirbu also said.
Ion Vicol was born in the Badicu-Moldovenesc village, southern Cahul district, on 12 March 1947. He studied at the State University of Moldova, Journalism Faculty, and debuted with the prose volume in 1976.
The volume, The Night of Saint Andrew, published in 2006, is a historical and patristic novel, which proved to be the top work of the writer and for which he received the honorary diploma and the golden medal Saint Apostle Andrew, the Protector of Romania, on behalf of Romania’s Patriarchy. Ion Vicol was buried at the Central Orthodox Cemetery on the Armeneasca Street from Chisinau.
