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Emilia Plugaru, (born June 17, 1951 in Cetireni, Ungheni, Republic of Moldova) is a Romanian writer who writes mainly children's literature (poems, stories, riddles, plays).

Biography
Emilia Plugaru was born on June 17, 1951 in the village of Cetireni, near the border town with Romania - Ungheni, in the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, in the family of Ion and Marioara Ciobanu. She is the sixth of nine children. From an early age, she began to paint and write, manifesting herself in particular at the school in the village of Cetireni, from which she graduated in 1968. Faced with the dilemma of writing or painting, two passions which attracted her, she chose to continue her studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Polytechnic Institute of Chisinau, later working as a landscape architect.

She married and raised four children, but stopped her career as an architect in the context of the economic difficulties of the USSR collapse in the 1990s.

However, she devotes a large part of her time to writing, so that in 1996 her first volume of poems and coloring pages for children appeared: I entered primary school.

Since then, she has written numerous literary works for children appreciated and awarded in various competitions. Awarded at the National Drama Competition (2001) - the play The Werewolves Stoled the Moon was performed during over twenty years on the stage of the Republican Puppet Theater Licurici in Chisinau.

The children's poetry book The Colorful Seasons was awarded the Special Prize of the National Children's Library "Ion Creanga" at the International Children's Book Fair in Moldova in 2019.

Besides, the writer also loves the art of pottery, manifesting herself as a potter and making various art objects.

Emilia Plugaru is a member of the Union of Writers of the Republic of Moldova.

Work
The author started out in 1996 with the volume of poetry for children "I entered the primary school" (Albinuța Publishing House, Chisinau). Then followed a cycle of stories, poems and plays for children, some of which won awards at the National Drama Competition in the Republic of Moldova: The elephant climbed over the rainbow (1999, merit), The Werewolves Stoled the Moon (2001, third place), The Forest School (2002, third place).

In 2018, the second poetry book for children was published: The Colored Seasons, (RP Editor Publishing House).

In 2019, the first volume of poems for adults Mother called last night was published (RP Editor), based on the poem of the same name which went viral on social networks.

In 2020, the second volume of poems is published: An Autumn like a song (RP Editor).

In 2021, the volume of love poems Ink Sky is published (RP Editor).

In 2022, the children's book Who is Tsepoosh is published.

Tsepoosh is a little hedgehog curious to discover the world.

A character imagined and created by the author.

The second book Tsepoosh is beautiful is published the same year.

The author also publishes her first novel: Aglaia of the Widow, the story of a Moldovan peasant woman who faces the difficulties of life during the Soviet period and the transition years following the USSR collapse in Moldova.

Prizes
National Drama Contest (1999) - Merit for the play The elephant climbed over the rainbow;

National Drama Contest (2001) - Third Prize for the play Werewolves Stoled the Moon;

National Drama Contest (2002) - Third Prize for the play The School in the Forest;

International Book Fair for Children and Young People of the Republic of Moldova (2019) - Special Prize of the National Children's Library "Ion Creanga" for the book The Colored Seasons.