Leo Butnaru

He has worked in publishing, as editor and editor-in-chief, at magazines such as, Moldovan Youth, Literature and Art, and Moldova.

In the same year, he is removed from the staff of Moldoval Youth (following his approval of an article regarding M. Kogalniceanu that crossed imperial-communist ideological lines).

[1][2] In 2019 some media sources announced that Leo Butnaru has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

His poetry and prose have appeared in Albanian, Armenian, English, Bulgarian, French, Georgian, German, Letton, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Hungarian.

His books have been published in France, Russia, Germany, Italia, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Tatarstan, and Ukraine.