Coroban, Vasile (14 February 1910, Camenca, Glodeni – 19 October 1984, Chişinău) was a writer from

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. He was a non-conformist literary historian and critic from Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) (nowadays

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), PhD in

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(1958). Beginning in 1954, he was a member of the Writers' Union of SSRM. In 1935, he graduated from the law faculty of the

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. He edited the newspaper ''"University Life"'' that had an anti-fascist orientation, and because of that, he was convicted. After 28 June 1940 he collaborated with the newspaper ''"Soviet Earth"'' from Bălți. In 1942-1945, he was a teacher at the general school in the

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region. After 1945, he worked as a secretary responsible for the newspaper "Luceafărul roșu" (Bălți). Since 1947, he collaborated with the Institute of Language and Literature of the

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(ASM). Within the institute he held the position of head of the Literary Theory Sector. He was the author and editor of school textbooks in MSSR. He published research works on Romanian and Universal Classical Literature, and explored the literary phenomenon in the MSSR.

Biography

He graduated from the

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in 1935 and became a member of the

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Works

* ''Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea. Studiu introductiv'', Ch. * ''Vasile Alecsandri: viaţa şi opera'', Ch., 1957 * ''Летописец Ион Некулче'' (1958) * ''Scriitorii Moldovei Sovietice. Indice bibliografic'', Ch., 1969 (redactor) * ''Romanul moldovenesc contemporan'', Ch. 1969 (original), 1974, 1979, în limba rusă * ''Pagini de critică literară'', Ch., 1971 * ''Opere alese'', Ch., ed. Literatura artistică, 1983 * ''Dimitrie Cantemir – scriitor umanist'', eseu, Ch., ed. Cartea Moldovei, 2003

Bibliography

* Anatol Eremia, Unitatea patrimoniului onomastic românesc. Toponimie. Antroponimie ediţie jubiliară, 2001, Centrul Naţional de Terminologie, ed. „Iulian”, Chişinău, .

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Vasile Coroban – un model de conştiinţă românească
* Jurnal de Chişinău
„A urât mediocritatea” – Vasile Coroban – 100 de ani

Vasile COROBAN

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coroban, Vasile Romanian people of Moldovan descent 1910 births 1984 deaths Eastern Orthodox Christians from Romania Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni Moldovan writers Moldovan male writers Romanian writers People from Glodeni District