Writer, translator, essayist and journalist Vladimir Beșleagă turns 93 on July 25. On this occasion, Parliament congratulated him, IPN reports.
“Today we pay homage to writer Vladimir Beșleagă – a great talent of our nation, a man who during his career has shown courage, generosity, simplicity. Master, Happy Birthday and a lot of inspiration!”, Speaker of Parliament Igor Grosu said at the beginning of the sitting.
Vladimir Beșleagă was born on July 25, 1931, in the village of Mălăiești, Grigoriopol district. His first novel, “Broken Flight” (1966) is recognized as one of the remarkable prose stories of the post-war period, one of the novels that changed the face of prose in Moldova. Vladimir Beșleagă 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 1960s, but which was published only in 1988.
Master Beșleagă signed numerous tablets, essays, reflections and memoirs. He received the State Prize of the MSSR (1978). He is a People’s Writer (1991). Between 1990 and 1994, he sat in in the first Parliament of the Republic of Moldova. He was awarded the “Order of the Republic” (in 1996, which he rejected). The manuscripts of several novels (“Broken Flight”, “Ignat and Ana”, “Blood on the Snow” etc.) are kept in the collection of “Mihail Kogălniceanu” Romanian Literature Museum.
