The writer Vladimir Beșleagă turns 93: A talent of the nation

The writer, translator, essayist and journalist Vladimir Beșleagă turns 93 today. On this occasion, congratulations were addressed to him in the Parliament, reports Știri.md with reference to the IPN news agency.

„Today the writer Vladimir Beșleăgă is celebrated - a great talent of our nation, a man who during his career showed courage, generosity, simplicity. Masters, happy birthday and lots of inspiration!”, said the President of the Parliament, Igor Grosu, at the beginning of the meeting.

Vladimir Beșleăgă was born on July 25, 1931, in the village of Mălăiesti, Grigoriopol district. His first novel, „Flight Flight” (1966), is recognized as one of the outstanding prose of the post-war period, one of the novels that changed the face of Moldovan prose.

Vladimir Beșleăgă is noted for the use of new narrative techniques, especially in the psychological novel „The Life and Death of the Unfortunate Filimon...”, written in the 60s, but which was only published in 1988.

Master Beșleăgă signed numerous tablets, essays, reflections and memorial notes. He received the State Prize of the RSSM (1978). He is Writer of the People (1991).

Between 1990-1994 he was a deputy in the first Parliament of the Republic of Moldova. He obtained the „Order of the Republic" (in 1996, which he refused). The manuscripts of several novels („Broken Flight", „Ignat and Ana”, „Blood on the Snow”, etc.) are kept in the collection of the Museum of Romanian Literature "Mihail Kogălniceanu”.