Moldovan writer marks 70th birthday anniversary

Chisinau, 16 November /MOLDPRES/ - Writer, laureate of Moldova’s National Prize and of the Mihai Eminescu prize of the Romanian Academy Arcadie Suceveanu today was paid homage at the headquarters of the Mihail Kogalniceanu National Literature Museum on the occasion of the 70th birthday anniversary. An exhibition of books and documents titled, This poem which I write, was inaugurated at the same museum.    

Attending the event, the head of the Moldovan Writers’ Union (USM), Teo Chiriac, said the poetry of Arcadie Suceveanu was full of splendor, supreme things. ‘’Arcadie Suceveanu has managed to write books which will remain on the first shelf of the Romanian literature from Bessarabia. In his capacity of head of the Moldovan Writers’ Union, he made many good things for colleagues,’’ Teo Chiriac noted.    

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).