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- Grigore Vieru was born on February 14, 1935 in Pererita, Romania [now Moldova]. He was a writer, known for Police, Adjective (2009), Maria, Mirabella (1981) and Maria si Mirabella in Tranzistoria (1989). He died on January 18, 2009 in Chisinau, Moldova.
- He was a Moldovan poet who bravely promoted his country's native language, Romanian, when Moldova was a Soviet republic and Russian was the official language. He fought for the cultural reunification of Moldova and Romania.
- He was born in a rural village in northeastern Romania. Five years later, that area was annexed by the Soviet Union under a Nazi-Soviet pact, and became the Socialist Republic of Moldova.
- In the 1970s, he wrote "The Little Bee", Moldova's first Romanian-language schoolbook for children.
- The President of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, declared a national day of mourning for Vieru.
- Pictured on a Moldovan commemorative postage stamp issued 14 February 2015, the 80th anniversary of his birth.
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