Author · Moldova
Nicolai Costenco
Died in 1993
Nicolai Costenco was born on 21 December 1913 in Chișinău and was raised by his maternal grandparents in Cihoreni. A former pupil of the Hasdeu lycée, he was in the thirties an editor of the review Viața Basarabiei and published his first collections. Arrested by the Soviet political police in June 1941, he was deported to Siberia and sentenced to seven years in a camp; he was not rehabilitated until 1956. A People's Writer and State Prize winner late in life, he died in Chișinău on 29 July 1993.
In the catalogue 1
- PoetryPoezii aleseNicolai Costenco · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature