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Alexandru GromovMoldovan science fiction writer, journalist, publicist, film critic, editor, translator.
Date of Birth: 22.04.1925
Country:  Moldova |
Content:
- Alexander Gromov: Moldovan Man of Letters
- Literary Debut and Career
- Collaborative Works
- Contributions to Film
- Film Journalism and Encyclopedia
- Translation and Retelling
- Honors and Recognition
Alexander Gromov: Moldovan Man of Letters
Early Life and EducationAlexander Gromov was born in 1925 in Izmail, then part of Bessarabia in Romania (now Ukraine), to a Jewish family. He attended primary school in Brăila and Bucharest, before graduating from the Romanian "Sf. Andrei" High School in Bucharest.
Literary Debut and Career
Gromov debuted as a science fiction writer in the Moldovan language in the early 1950s. He worked for many years as an editor for the magazine "Moldova," where he compiled anthologies of science fiction, wrote film criticism, and translated fiction from French, Italian, English, and Russian.
Collaborative Works
In 1956, Gromov collaborated with physicist Tadeusz Malinowski to publish the science fiction novella "The Secret of the Morning Dawn." This was followed by the novels "Space Vacation" (1962) and "Shipwreck on Tlogra" (1974), as well as the novellas "Freshmen" (1979) and "On the Trail of Argus" (1986). He also published a collection of essays and stories, "Thinking Anew" (1987).
Contributions to Film
Documentary FilmmakingGromov wrote the screenplay for the documentary film "Fluieraș" (1961), which focused on the eponymous orchestra of Moldovan folk music.
Film Journalism and Encyclopedia
In 1989, he founded and headed (until 1995) the editorial office of the post-glasnost cinema newspaper "Lanterna magica" ("Magic Lantern"), which covered Moldovan and international cinema. From 2001, he contributed to the compilation of the online Encyclopedia of Moldovan Cinema.
Translation and Retelling
Gromov translated and annotated novels such as Stefan Zweig's "Magellan's Epic" (1959), Eliza Orzeszkowa's "The Witch" (1966), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's "Emilia Galotti" (1969), H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" (1970), Georges Simenon's "Maigret's First Case" (1971), Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" (1976), Alberto Moravia's "Two Women" (1978), and stories by the Strugatsky brothers and from Arabic folktales (1970).
Honors and Recognition
Gromov was a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR. In 1995, he was awarded the title "Maestru al Literaturii." He received a special award for his career in journalism from the Independent Journalism Center (IJC) and the Press Freedom Committee in 2005.
