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  • PoetryFabuleAlecu Donici · 1840not translated into EnglishTalking animals mocking human failings, in the line of a Russian model.Literature
  • Short storiesAlexandru LăpușneanulConstantin Negruzzi · 1840not translated into EnglishA deposed prince regains the throne of Moldavia in the sixteenth century and takes revenge on the boyars who had betrayed him.Literature
  • TalePovestea poveștilorConstantin Stamati · 1843not translated into EnglishThe legendary birth of the Moldavian land, set down in tale and verse by a writer of annexed Bessarabia.Literature
  • PoetryThe Ewe LambMiorițaAnonymous · 1850A shepherd warned by his ewe lamb that someone wants to kill him, who turns his foretold death into a wedding with the world.Literature
  • PoetryThe Song of RomaniaCântarea RomânieiAlecu Russo · 1850A song in verses in praise of a country and its history, published without the author's name by Romanian exiles in Paris.Literature
  • TheatreRăzvan și VidraBogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu · 1867not translated into EnglishA former slave who rises, driven on by an ambitious woman, towards the throne of sixteenth-century Moldavia.Literature
  • PoetryOur LanguageLimba noastrăAlexei Mateevici · 1917Twelve stanzas in praise of the language spoken in Bessarabia, written in 1917, five of which now form the country's anthem.LiteraturePublic domain
  • PoetryOglinzi fermecateLiviu Deleanu · 1927not translated into EnglishA first book of verse written at sixteen, nourished by the modernist poets and peopled with spectres and gravediggers.Literature
  • Short storiesCălătóriiDmitrii Milev · 1930not translated into EnglishStories about Bessarabia under Romanian administration, written from the other bank of the Dniester by a Communist exile.Literature
  • TheatreCodreanuSamuil Lehtțir · 1930not translated into EnglishOne of the first plays of Soviet Moldovan theatre, about a revolt of serfs led by an outlaw.Literature
  • PoetryTiraspolulLeonid Corneanu · 1932not translated into EnglishAn ode to Tiraspol, a new chief town on the Dniester, by a young poet of the left bank.Literature
  • PoetryDiscursul soareluiEmilian Bucov · 1937not translated into EnglishRostrum verse written in Bucharest before the war by a young communist, on the model of Mayakovsky.Literature
  • PoetryBlestemBogdan Istru · 1937not translated into EnglishA pre-war collection, written in Bessarabia while it was still Romanian, between the hermeticism of Barbu and the dark vein of Arghezi.Literature
  • PoetryPoezii aleseNicolai Costenco · 1957not translated into EnglishThe book of the return of a poet deported to Siberia for having defended his language.Literature
  • NovelFrunze de dorIon Druță · 1957not translated into EnglishA Moldavian village just after the war, two young couples, and a love that the ambition of one of them pulls away from the other.Literature
  • PoetryFrate al pământuluiAndrei Lupan · 1959not translated into EnglishThe book of a poet who came from agronomy, on the Moldavian land and those who work it, published in Chișinău in 1959.Literature
  • CinemaMan Follows the SunChelovek idyot za solntsemMikhail Kalik · 1961A day in the life of a child who crosses an entire city in pursuit of the sun.Cinema
  • CinemaPosledniy mesyats oseniVadim Derbenyov · 1965An old man makes the rounds of his sons to find out what they have kept of what he had passed on to them.Cinema
  • NovelZbor frîntVladimir Beșleagă · 1966not translated into EnglishThe war seen through an adolescent searching for his brother from one bank of the Dniester to the other, in a narrative that rejects the order of time.Literature
  • NovelSingur în fața dragosteiAureliu Busuioc · 1966not translated into EnglishA sceptical teacher and a young colleague in a village school: the love story that opened Moldovan prose to modernity.Literature
  • CinemaSe caută un paznicGheorghe Vodă · 1967A poet filmmaker brings a folk tale by Creangă to the screen; the film is banned in 1970.Cinema
  • NarrativeIsprăvile lui GuguțăSpiridon Vangheli · 1967A little boy and his magic hat, big enough to shelter a whole village: the Moldovan children's classic.Literature
  • PoetryNumele tăuGrigore Vieru · 1968not translated into EnglishSimple, nostalgic verses that paid tribute, in the midst of Soviet Moldavia, to Romanian writers and to a Romanian sculptor.Literature
  • PoetryVremea leruluiGeorge Meniuc · 1969not translated into EnglishThe first verses of a child of Chișinău, written in Bucharest before the war and returned to readers thirty years later.Literature
  • PoetryDescântece de alb și negruDumitru Matcovschi · 1969not translated into EnglishIncantations in black and white, pulled from the bookshops as soon as they appeared: the book that made Dumitru Matcovschi a proscribed poet.Literature
  • CinemaThe FiddlersLăutariiEmil Loteanu · 1972A musical fresco about the Gypsy fiddlers of Bessarabia in the last century.Cinema
  • PoetryMomentul inimiiVictor Teleucă · 1975not translated into EnglishThe meditative turn of a poet of the generation of the sixties.Literature