Grigore Vieru's poems will appear in Gagauzian by his birthday

A volume of poems by Grigore Vieru translated into Gagauzian by Ambassador Fiodor Angheli will come out by February 14, when the late bard would have turned 75. The book in two languages will be named “Mother, you are ...” in Romania, or “Mamu, sän...” in Gagauzian, Info-Prim Neo reports. The bilingual volume will appear in 1,000 copies. It has 100 pages and contains 50 poems, illustrations and photographs of Grigore Vieru. “In this book, poet Grigore Vieru will be described as a living man. This is the Gagauz people's attitude to his work. We want to show that the children can read his poems in Gagauzian as well,” the Ambassador said. Though most of Grigore Vieru’s poems selected for this volume are in blank verse, in Gagauzian they are in rhyme. The book will be distributed free of charge in Chisinau and in Comrat. Later, it will be available in most of the schools. Angheli said that wafter the book comes out, he will start translating ‘tablets’ by Tudor Arghezi. Fiodor Angheli has translated several books into Gagauzian. They include “Masallar” (“Tales”), which contains five tales by A. S. Pushkin, and “Çoban yildizi-çulpan” (“The Shepherd’s Star”) - the translation of “Luceafarul” poem by Mihai Eminescu. Born on October 24, 1935 in Gaidar village of Ceadar-Lunga district, Fiodor Angheli graduated from the Institute of Asian and African States of “M. Lomonosov” University and the Higher Party School in Moscow. He had worked as a correspondent for the newspapers “Novosti” (1967-1972) and “Pravda” (1974-1979) in Bucharest and at the foreign relations division of the Central Committee in Chisinau (1972-1974). He had been the director general of “Moldpress” Agency (1983-1990) and then the head of the Office of “Itar-Tass” Agency in Moldova (1990-1994). He had been a member of the Parliament of Moldova (1994-1998) and Ambassador of Moldova to Turkey, Egypt and Kuwait, with residence in Ankara (1998-2001).