He is employed as editor at the
"Moldovan Book" (1974) and
"Artistic Literature" (1977-1982), literary secretary at the National Theater (1982-1983) and Lyric Theater
"Alexei Mateevici"(1986-1987). Since May 1987 he has been elected secretary of the Steering Committee of the
Writers' Union of Moldova and president since September 1991 until 2010. He was deputy of the people of the
USSR in
Gorbachev's thaw (1989-1990) and then deputy in the
Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (1999-2001). In parallel, he is the head of the Department of Classical Literature of the Institute of History and Literary Theory of the
Academy of Sciences of Moldova, he obtained his Ph.D. in
Philology in 1998, with the thesis
"Eminescu, poet of Being" (conductor, Eugen Simion) and teaches at the
"Ion Creangă" Pedagogical University in
Chişinău. In 1991 he became an honorary member of the
Romanian Academy, a member of the
Academy of Sciences of Moldova (1992), a member of the
Writers' Union of Romania (since 1994 elected and member of the board of directors), member of PEN-club, member of the Târgoviştei Writers Society (2005), vice-president of the Cultural League for the Unity of Romanians Abroad, an honorary citizen of
Craiova (in 2005, alongside
Grigore Vieru,
Vasile Tărâţeanu). He is the director of the magazine "Life of Basarabia" and in the collections of publications "Critical copybooks", "Romanian Life", founding president of the "Mihai Eminescu" International Academic Center in
Chișinău. ==Affiliations==