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Vasile Moldovan (born June 20, 1949, Șopteriu, Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania, journalist and poet. As cofounder (1991), president (2001–2009), and vice president (2009– ) of the Romanian Society of Haiku (RSH), Moldovan represented the society at national and international meetings in Bucharest and Constanța (1994–2019), Sofia (2005), Frankfurt am Main (2005), Tokyo (2007), Pécs (2010), and Gent (2010). He published ten books, including four haiku collections, and translated eight haiku booklets from Romanian into English and from English into Romanian. Coauthor of the Haikupedia article “Haiku in Romania.” Resides in Bucharest.
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