Nicolai Costenco Explained

Nicolai Costenco
Honorific Suffix:	OR
Birth Date:	21 December 1913
Birth Place:	Chişinău
Death Place:	Chişinău
Nationality:	Russian Empire, Romania, USSR, Moldova
Known For:	Poet
Spouse:	Maria Costenco
Children:	Nicolae, Marina-Mimi, Tatiana, Constantin, Tudor, Ilyana
Parents:	Maria lui Gheorghe Leahu, Şiodor Costenco
Relations:	Anatol Păduraru (brother)
Awards:	Premiul de Stat al Republicii Moldova (1988)

Nicolai Costenco [nikolai kostentʃo] (21 December 1913 – 29 July 1993) was a writer from Moldova. He was managing editor of Viaţa Basarabiei (1934–1940) and was deported to Siberia în 1941.^[1]

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 (1934–1940).^[2] In 1941 he was deported to Siberia because he claimed that there is no difference between the Moldovan language and the Romanian language.^[1] In his poem, "Pictează-mi o mirişte", Grigore Vieru wrote: "Nicolai Costenco, poetul/ Care şi-a scris poemele/ Pe caietul de gheaţă Siberian"...^{[3] [4]}

Awards

• Premiul de Stat al Republicii Moldova (1988).

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).

Bibliography

• Timpul de dimineaţă, Un scriitor al rezistenţei şi al continuităţii: Nicolai Costenco (1913–1993), 2004. – 5 ian.
• Mihai Cimpoi, "Alte disocieri", Chapter Nicolai Costenco, Chişinău, Ed. Cartea moldoveneasca, 1971.
• Vasile Badiu, Eroul traditional in ipostaze noi. In cartea: Eroul con temporan in literatura moldoveneasca, Chişinău, Ed. Stiinta, 1972.
• Mihail Dolgan, Sunt cetacean al tarii poeziei. In cartea lui: Crez si maiestrie artistica, Chişinău, Ed. Cartea moldoveneasca, 1982; Lirica din perioada exilului siberian. In Literatura si arta, 1995, 26 ianuarie.
• Ion Ciocanu, Cetatean al tarii poeziei. In cartea: Nicolai Costenco, Euritmii, Chişinău, Ed. Hyperion, 1990.
• George Calinescu, Istoria literaturii romane de la origini pana in prezent, p. 1031.
• Grigore Vieru, "PICTEAZA-MI O MIRISTE" ("Nicolai Costenco, poetul/ Care şi-a scris poemele/ Pe caietul de gheaţă Siberian")^{[3] [4]}

External links

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

Notes and References

1. [Grigore Vieru]
2. Web site: Nicolai Costenco, TABEL CRONOLOGIC. 5 June 2017.
3. [Grigore Vieru]
4. [Horia Ion Groza]