Vasile Coroban, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasile Coroban

Moldovan writer

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1910

Place of Birth: Camenca, Glodeni District, Moldova

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1984

Profession: journalist, literary critic

Nationality: Moldova

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Coroban, Vasile (February 14, 1910, Camenca, Glodeni - October 19, 1984, Chisinau) was a writer from Moldova.
He was the non-conformist literary historian and critic from Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) (nowadays Republic of Moldova), PhD in philology (1958).
Since 1954, he was a member of the Writers' Union of SSRM.
In 1935, he graduated from the law faculty of the University of Ia?i.
He edited the newspaper "University Life" that had the anti-fascist orientation, and because of that, he was convicted. After June 28, 1940, he collaborated with the newspaper "Soviet Earth" from Bal?i.
In 1942-1945, he was a teacher at the general school in the Kemerovo region.
After 1945, he worked as a secretary responsible for the newspaper "Luceafarul ro?u" (Bal?i).
Since 1947, he collaborated with the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (ASM).
Within the institute he held the position of the head of the Literary Theory Sector.
He was the author and editor of the school textbooks in MSSR.
He published researches on Romanian and Universal Classical Literature, and explored the literary phenomenon in the MSSR.