In the history of letters, Ion Creangă is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Ion Creangă as Moldavian - born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher.
Ion Creangă was born at Humulești in 1837. His recorded nationality is Principality of Moldavia. He was educated at Theological Seminary at Socola Monastery.
The nineteenth century was the age of the serialised novel and mass literacy; writers reached audiences of a size never seen before.
He worked as writer, autobiographer and children's writer.
The writing is recorded in Romanian.
His work is classed as anecdote, children's literature and erotic literature.
His name is attached above all to Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes. A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
That the work was written from Principality of Moldavia matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Ion Creangă died in 1889, aged 52. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Genres: anecdote, children's literature and erotic literature
