The author pleads for the post-mortem granting of Herder Prize to Grigore Vieru, the most known and loved Basarabian poet, unique in the entire Romanian area and a real teacher of his people, a symbol of union of the Romanians from this side and that side of the river Prut. In the author’s opinion, the name of Grigore Vieru that keeps accumulating new meanings, integrating the national as well as the universal, will undoubtedly increase the fame and prestige of this noble prize that is offered for outstanding contributions to the enrichment of the european cultural homeland.