Ion Druță
Ion Druță (3 September 1928 – 28 September 2023), also known as Ion Drutse, was a Moldovan writer, poet, playwright and literary historian. He was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
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Ion Druță
Ion Chibzii from Chisinau., Moldova. · Ion Druta, the Moldavian writer (the end of 80th years). · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Name
- Ion Druță
- Born
- 3 September 1928
- Birthplace
- Horodiște, Romania (now Moldova)
- Died
- 28 September 2023
- Place of death
- Moscow, Russia
- Occupation
- Writer, poet, politician
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russia · Moldova
- Fields
- literary activity
- Education
- Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
- Honours
- Order of Lenin · Order of the Republic · Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Order of Friendship of Peoples · Order of Bogdan the Founder
- Languages
- Russian · Romanian · English
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Biography
Biography
Ion Druță studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. The recorded working language is Russian, Romanian and English. The field of work recorded is literary activity. Positions recorded include deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Distinctions recorded are Order of Lenin, Order of the Republic, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Order of Friendship of Peoples.
Ion Druta, the Moldavian writer (the end of 80th years).
Ion Chibzii from Chisinau., Moldova. · Ion Druta, the Moldavian writer (the end of 80th years).
(The foreground) "The Moldavian prose writer Ion Druta and the Moldavian poet Grigore Vieru in a building of embassy of Moldova in Romania" (the beginning of 90th years).
Ion Chibzii from Chisinau., Moldova. · (The foreground) "The Moldavian prose writer Ion Druta and the Moldavian poet Grigore Vieru in a building of embassy of Moldova in Romania" (the beginning of 90th years).
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Ion Druță • Honorific Suffix — OR • Born — 3 September 1928 • Birthplace — Horodiște, Romania (now Moldova) • Died — 28 September 2023 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Resting Place — Candle of Gratitude • Occupation — Writer, poet, politician
Biography
Biography
Ion Druță was born on 3 September 1928 in the village of Horodiște in what was then Soroca County in the Kingdom of Romania (now in Dondușeni District, Republic of Moldova). He graduated from the Forestry School and the Higher Courses of the Institute of Literature "Maxim Gorki" of the Union of Soviet Writers. From 1969, he lived in Moscow, Russia. Druță's first short stories were published in the early 1950s. His works are considered to be part of the "gold fund" of contemporary national literature. • Illustration — Druță talking to Grigore Vieru at the Moldovan embassy in Bucharest, in the 1990s Druță died in Moscow on 28 September 2023, at the age of 95. His ashes were buried under the Candle of Gratitude, Soroca.
Novels
Novels
• Frunze de dor • Povara bunătății noastre • Clopotnița • Întoarcerea țărânii în pământ • Biserica albă • Păsările tinereții noastre (1971) • Sania
In English
In English
• Moldavian Autumn, various translators, University Press of the Pacific (2001)
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Horodiște.
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Moscow.
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Appreciations, distinctions, legality and criticism
From 1987, Ion Druță served as Honorary President of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Moldova, where he was unanimously elected to the General Assembly of Writers. Druță was the honorary president of the Moldovan Writers' Union from 1987. He initially only wrote in Romanian, but wrote in Russian as well from 1960. Druță was one of the leaders of the Romanian national movement in Moldova in the late 1980s and early 1990s. However, from the 1990s, his position in the ethno-linguistic controversy became more ambiguous and Moldovenist, being both criticised by the pro-Romanian media and organizations and praised by the pro-Russian ones for this stance.
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Awards and honours
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (8 June 1960, 16 November 1984) • Order of Lenin (1988) • Ordinul Republicii (1993) • Laureat al Premiului de Stat al RSS Moldovenești pentru romanul “Balade din cîmpie” și nuvela “Ultima lună de toamnă” (1967). • Scriitor al Poporului din RSS Moldovenească (1988) • Membru de Onoare al Academiei Române (1990). • Membru activ of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (1992). • Doctor Honoris Causa of the Moldova State University (1999). • Laureat al Premiului de Stat al Republicii Moldova în domeniul literaturii (2008)
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- 1.Jurnal.md. Scriitorul Ion Druță a murit la vârsta de 95 de ani. 28 September 2023.
- 2.Ion Druță va fi înmormântat la Soroca, lângă Lumânarea Recunoștinței. diez.md. 30 September 2023.
- 3.Ion Druță. Ambiguitatea ideologică a literaturii. 3 September 2021.
- 4.Batrinul pilon al moldovenismului | Moldova Suverană.
- 5.Publicistica lui Ion Druţă sub semnul manipulării. 3 September 2020.
- 6.Lucreţia Bârlădeanu - Ion Druţă - o emblemă a moldovenismului.
- 7.Ion Druță: Limba moldovenească este maica, limba română este fiica (VIDEO).
- 8.Ион Друцэ: Молдавский Язык – Мать, Румынский Язык – Дочь (Видео).
- 9.Vladimir Voronin: Moldova rămâne pe veci cu sufletul alături de Rusia prin intermediul operei druţiene. 18 October 2008.
- 10.Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении писателей орденами СССР. Sovetskaya kultura. 139. 2. 20 November 1984.
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