Victor Ion Popa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian dramatist
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Place of Birth: Bârlad, Vaslui County, Romania
About Victor Ion Popa
- Victor Ion Popa (Romanian pronunciation: ['viktor i'on 'popa]; July 29, 1895 in Calmatui, a village in the Grivita commune, in the former Tutova County (Grivita is now in Gala?i County), in Moldavia, Romania – March 30, 1946 in Bucharest) was a Romanian dramatist. He went to primary school in the village of Calmatui where his father was a teacher.
- At Iasi he finished his first five years of junior high/high school (Costache Negruzzi) and his last two years of high school at the National high school of Iasi, graduating in 1914.
- He enrolled in the Iasi Conservatory and for a time in the Law faculty. One of his most famous plays is Take, Ianke si Cadîr (1933), about a Romanian, a Romanian Jew, and a Turk, respectively.
- The play was set in Podeni, one of the neighborhoods of Bârlad. Plays: Ciuta, 1922 Muscata din fereastra, 1928 Take, Ianke si Cadîr, 1933 Acord familiar Cuiul lui Pepelea Razbunarea sufleurului Raspântia cea mareTeatrul Victor Ion Popa (the Victor Ion Popa Theatre) in Bârlad was dedicated in his honor.
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