Alexandru Cazaban, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian writer
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Place of Birth: Iași, Iași County, Romania
About Alexandru Cazaban
- Alexandru Cazaban (October 6, 1872–May 24, 1966) was a Romanian prose writer. Born in Ia?i to François Cazaban, who was of French origin, he graduated from the city's National College in 1895, following which he entered an architecture school that he did not complete.
- He worked by turns as a proofreader at Românul, a rural schoolteacher, a draftsman, a veterinarian and a civil servant at the bridge and highway agency, before re-entering the newspaper business with the support of Alexandru Vlahu?a and Barbu ?tefanescu Delavrancea.
- In 1898, he edited Bolta rece magazine at Ia?i, publishing humorous vignettes.
- His own publishing debut involved satirical sketches that appeared in Anton Bacalba?a's Mo? Teaca.Cazaban contributed short prose for the second series of Ion Luca Caragiale's Moftul român, as well as for Zeflemeaua, Revista literara, Flacara, Via?a Româneasca, Luceafarul, Universul and Adevarul.
- He wrote short stories, sketches and tales published in volumes that included De?tept baiat! (1904), Chipuri ?i suflete (1908), Oameni cumsecade (1911), Între femeie ?i pisica (1913), Pacatul sfin?iei sale (1915), Dureri neîn?elese (1917), Între frac ?i cojoc (1922) and Vazute ?i auzite (1958), as well as the 1924 novel Un om suparator.
- His writings evoked provincial life and also cast a somewhat harsh light on the rural environment.
- An avid hunter, his 1939 Povestiri vânatore?ti deals with the topic.
- In 1937, he won the Romanian national prize for prose.
- He died in Bucharest in 1966 at the age of 93.
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