Leonida Lari

• Name — Leonida Lari • Office2 — Member of the Parliament of Romania • Term Start2 — 1992 • Term End2 — 2008 • Office3 — People's Deputy of the Soviet Union • Term Start3 — 26 March 1989 • Term End3 — 5 September 1991 • Born — 26 October 1949 • Birthplace — Bursuceni, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union • Died — 11 December 2011 • Place of death — Chişinău, Moldova • Party — Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party • Other Party — Greater Romania Party Popular Front of Moldova • Honorific Suffix — OR • Constituency3 — Ialoveni

Leonida Lari was born on 26 October 1949 in Bursuceni, Moldovan SSR, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union. Her parents, Ion and Nadejda Tuchilatu, were teachers. Lari had a younger brother, Leonard Tuchilatu, also a poet, who died when he was only 24 of kidney failure after being exposed to radiation while serving in the Soviet army. Lari graduated from the State University of Chişinău, Moldova, with a major in philology. She worked at the Museum of Literature "D. Cantemir" in Chişinau (1971–1973), was an editor for the journal "Literatură şi Artă" (1985–1988), as well as editor-in-chief (1988–2003) of "Glasul Națiunii", the first publication in the Latin alphabet in the Republic of Moldova. She was one of the leaders of the movement for national emancipation in Bessarabia between 1988 and 1991. She was elected as a representative to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1988–1990) and was a member of the Permanent Bureau of the People's Front of Moldova (1990–1992). Between 1990 and 1992, Lari served as the president of the Christian Democratic League of Women, one of the constituent components of the Social Liberal Party from 2001. In 1992, after repeated threats to the well-being of her children, Lari and her family fled to Bucharest, Romania. Between 1992 and 2008, Lari was a representative to the Parliament of Romania. Lari died of cancer in Chișinău, Moldova on 11 December 2011. Her death was followed by a state funeral, during which thousands of Moldovans paid their respects.

• Piaţa Diolei (1974) • Marele vânt (1980) • Mitul trandafirului (1985) • Scoica solară (1987) • Insula de repaos (1988) • Lumina graitoare (1989) • Dulcele foc (1989) • Anul 1989 (1990) • Lira şi păianjenul (1991) • Govorâŝij svet (1992) • Al nouălea val (1993) • Epifanii (1994) • Scrisori de pe strada Maica Domnului (1995) • Lunaria (1995) • Aldebaran (1996) • Între îngeri şi demoni (1998) • Învingătoarele spaţii (1999) • Insula de repaus (2000) • Răstignirea porumbeilor (2003) • Epifanii şi teofanii (2005) • Infinitul de aur (2006) • Sibila (2006) • Traduceri din lirica universala (2009) • 101 poeme (2009)