Gheorghe Vodă

• Name — Gheorghe Vodă • Born — 20 December 1934 • Birthplace — Văleni, Kingdom of Romania • Died — 24 February 2007 • Place of death — Chişinău, Moldova • Resting Place — Chişinău • Education — Moldova State University

Gheorghe Vodă was born on December 24, 1934, in the village of Văleni, Ismail County (now Cahul district). He studied Philology at the "Ion Creangă" Pedagogical University in Chișinău (1954–1959), and then higher courses of director and scriptwriter at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography from Moscow (1964–1966). After graduating from the faculty, he worked as a journalist and poet. His first volumes of poetry (Flight of seeds, 1962; Autumn Fire, 1965; Hot Rain, 1967; Wings for Manole, 1969) enclose in the resurrectional context of the Bessarabian sixteenth writers, who made the effort to remove the literature from the ideological schemes of time and to impress an aesthetic and national consciousness.

Gheorghe Vodă died on February 24, 2007, in Chișinău, being buried in the Central Cemetery in Chișinău. He was led on the last road by Bessarabian culture personalities such as: Arcadie Suceveanu, the vice-president of the Moldovan Writers' Union, the former minister of culture Ion Ungureanu, writers Vladimir Beşleagă, Anatol Codru, Andrei Vartic, Andrei Strâmbeanu, Mihai Poiată and others.

• Zborul seminţelor (1962) • Focuri de toamnă (1965) • Ploaie fierbinte (1967) • Aripi pentru Manole (1969) • Pomii dulci (1972) • Inima alergând (1981) • De dorul vieţii, de dragul pământului (1983) • Valurile (1984) • La capătul vederii (1984) • Viaţa pe nemâncate (1999)

• Bariera (s/m, 1965) • Se caută un paznic (1967) • Singur în faţa dragostei (1969) • Vara ostaşului Dedov (1971)

• Familia noastră (1962) • Amar (1965) • Bariera (s/m, 1965) • Singur în faţa dragostei (1969) • Maria (1969) • Maturitate (1973) • Încredere (1973) • Vară de neuitat (1974) • Usturici nr.12 (1975) • Jumătate de regat pentru un cal (1983)