Nicolai Costenco

Nicolai Costenco (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.

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). In 1941 he was deported to Siberia because he claimed that there is no difference between the Moldovan language and the Romanian language. In his poem, "Pictează-mi o mirişte", Grigore Vieru wrote: "Nicolai Costenco, poetul/ Care şi-a scris poemele/ Pe caietul de gheaţă Siberian"...

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).