Calistrat Hoga? (born Calistrat Dumitriu; April 19, 1848 – August 28, 1917) was a Moldavian, later Romanian prose writer.
The son of a Tecuci priest, he studied at Ia?i University before beginning an over four-decade career as a high school teacher, often at Piatra Neam?.
Meanwhile, he made several false starts as a writer before finding a suitable genre, namely stories drawn from his mountain rambles that appeared starting in 1907.
He did not manage to collect his works during his lifetime, but these appeared to great success in 1921.