SCRIITORUL MIRCEA LUTIC (29 MAI 1939 – 18 SEPTEMBRIE 2020) A PLECAT LA ÎNTÂLNIREA CU HERUVIMII…
Writer Mircea Lutic (May 29, 1939 – September 18, 2020) Bid Farewell to This World…

Summary/Abstract: In the autumn of 2020 (18 September), the sad news of Mircea Lutic’s death came from Chernivtsi. This article is a tribute to a man who, through his writing, was an emblematic figure of the Romanian community in northern Bukovina. Born on May 29, 1939, Mircea Lutic was a teacher, poet, translator and publicist. He began his literary activity in 1962, contributing to the spiritual enrichment of his countrymen through volumes of poems (Clipa de grație, 2005; Armindeni cu heruvimi, 2011; Ofrandă întemeietoare, 2014; Umbra lacrimii, 2016), publicistic articles (Colind prin zodii de cuvinte, 2005) and translations into Romanian of works by Russian writers Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and others. Mircea Lutic was a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine (1978), theWriters’ Union of Moldova (1990) and the Romanian Writers’ Union (1996). In 1989 he was a founding member of the Society for Romanian Culture “Mihai Eminescu” in Chernivtsi and later its president (1996–1997). He was editorial secretary of the magazine “Zorile Bucovinei” (1967–2003) and also worked at “Concordia”, the newspaper of the Romanian minority in Ukraine. The writer and man of culture Mircea Lutic passed away, leaving us his books, the fruits of his labour, as an offering to the “Wordˮ and to the sounds of mother tongue.

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