Nicolai Costenco was a writer from Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

. He was managing editor of Viaţa Basarabiei

Viaţa Basarabiei

Viaţa Basarabiei is a Romanian-language periodical from Chişinău, Moldova. Originally a literary and political magazine, published at a time when Bessarabia region was part of Romania, it was founded in 1932 by political activist Pan Halippa and writer Nicolai Costenco...

 (1934–1940) and was deported to Siberia

Siberia

Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...

 în 1941.

Biography

Nicolai Costenco was born in Chişinău on December 21, 1913, but his maternal grandparents, Gheorghe and Libeada, brought him up in Cihoreni. He worked for Viaţa Basarabiei

Viaţa Basarabiei

Viaţa Basarabiei is a Romanian-language periodical from Chişinău, Moldova. Originally a literary and political magazine, published at a time when Bessarabia region was part of Romania, it was founded in 1932 by political activist Pan Halippa and writer Nicolai Costenco...

(1934–1940). In 1941 he was deported to Siberia because he claimed that there is no difference between the Moldovan language

Moldovan language

Moldovan is one of the names of the Romanian language as spoken in the Republic of Moldova, where it is official. The spoken language of Moldova is closer to the dialects of Romanian spoken in northeastern Romania, and the two countries share the same literary standard...

 and the Romanian language

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

. In his poem, "Pictează-mi o mirişte", Grigore Vieru

Grigore Vieru

Grigore Vieru was a Moldavian poet and writer. He is mostly known for his poems and books for children. His poetry is characterized by vivid natural scenery, patriotism, as well as a venerated image of the sacred mother...

 wrote: "Nicolai Costenco, poetul/ Care şi-a scris poemele/ Pe caietul de gheaţă Siberian"...

Works

• Poezii (1937),
• Ore (1939),
• Cleopatra (1939).
• Severograd, 1963,
• Norocul omului, 1965),
• Serghei Lazo, 1967),
• Poezii alese (1957),
• Poezii noi (1960),
• Versuri (1963),
• Mugur, mugurel (1967),
• Poezii si poeme (1969),
• Poezii si poeme (1983),
• Euritmii (1990),
• Elegii pagane (1998).

External links

• NICOLAI F. COSTENCO, EXILATUL DEDUBLAT
• Revista Timpul, Nicolai Costenco 90, Un scriitor al rezistenţei şi al continuităţii
• Referat Nicolai Costenco