Ivan Pilchin

Ivan Pilchin (b. 1983) is a poet, translator, literary researcher, and Vice President of the Writers’ Union of Moldova (since 2021). He graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Faculty of Law of Moldova State University. He worked as a university lecturer at the Department of World and Comparative Literature at Moldova State University (2005–2019) and as a translator at Radio Free Europe’s Chișinău office (2014–2022). He currently heads the Publishing Department of the “B.P. Hasdeu” Municipal Library and, since 2020, has been editor-in-chief of the magazine BiblioPolis. He has published four world literature textbooks for high school (in collaboration with others), as well as studies, literary and theatre reviews, and numerous literary translations from and into Russian and Romanian. He is the author of the poetry volumes Человек-аквариум [The Aquarium Man] (Chișinău: Arc, 2018, 2020) and și tu, Iohanan (Chișinău: Arc, 2024; Writers’ Union of Moldova Poetry Book Award, 2025). He is a member of the Writers’ Union of Moldova and the Writers’ Union of Romania.