Ion Druță


Ion Druţă, generally spelled "Ion Drutse" in English, is a writer, poet, playwright and literary historian from the Republic of Moldova, honorary member of the Romanian Academy.

Biography

Ion Druţă was born on September 3, 1928, in the Horodişte village, the Soroca County, the Kingdom of Romania. He graduated from the Forestry School and the Higher Courses of the Institute of Literature "Maxim Gorki" of the Writers Union of the USSR. Since 1969 he has settled in Moscow, Russia.
The first stories of the prose writer are published in the early 1950s. His works, gathered in 4 volumes, Leaves of Longing, Ballads from the Plain, Last Autumn Month, The Burden of Our Goodness, The Belfry, The Horodişte, The Return of the Ground in the Earth, The White Church, The Pastor's Stick, etc. are part of "the gold fund" of contemporary national literature.

Appreciations, distinctions, legality

Since 1987 Ion Druţă is the Honorary President of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Moldova, where he was unanimously elected to the General Assembly of the Writers.
Druţă has been the honorary president of the Moldovan Writers' Union since 1987. He wrote initially in Romanian, since 1960 also in Russian.

Works

Dramatic operas

Novels

In English