| Nicolae Esinencu | |
| Honorific Suffix: | OR |
| Birth Name: | Nicolae Esinencu |
| Birth Date: | 13 August 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Chițcani, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Death Place: | Chișinău, Moldova |
| Nationality: | Moldovan |
| Alma Mater: | Maxim Gorky Literature Institute |
| Credits: | , which produces label "Notable credit(s)"; or by |
| Works: | , which produces label "Works" --> |
| Children: | 4, including Nicoleta Esinencu |
Nicolae Esinencu (13 August 1940 – 25 April 2016) was a Moldovan poet, screenwriter and writer. He was born in Chiţcani, in the Teleneşti district of Moldova, which was then part of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.[1]
Esinencu attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow between 1971 and 1975, then his first writing credit was for co-writing the screenplay for Vlad Ioviță's 1975 film Calul, pușca și nevasta. The two then collaborated on other projects. In 2010, friends organised a celebration for his seventieth birthday and true to his reputation as a "terrible child" he did not turn up.[2] He was a member of the Moldovan Writers' Union and the Writers' Union of Romania. He died on April 25, 2016.[3]