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WRITER

Ion Creangă

1837 - 1889

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Ion Creangă (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon ˈkre̯aŋɡə]; also known as Nică al lui Ștefan a Petrei, Ion Torcălău and Ioan Ștefănescu; March 1, 1837 – December 31, 1889) was a Moldavian, later Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th-century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes. Creangă's main contribution to fantasy and children's literature includes narratives structured around eponymous protagonists ("Harap Alb", "Ivan Turbincă", "Dănilă Prepeleac", "Stan Pățitul"), as well as fairy tales indebted to conventional forms ("The Story of the Pig", "The Goat and Her Three Kids", "The Mother with Three Daughters-in-Law", "The Old Man's Daughter and the Old Woman's Daughter"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ion Creangă has received more than 354,088 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ion Creangă is the 1,475th most popular writer (up from 1,621st in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Romania (up from 103rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Romanian Writer.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.51

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ion Creangă ranks 1,475 out of 5,755Before him are Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Chiara Lubich, William Heinesen, Khaled al-Asaad, Kâtip Çelebi, and Christine Nöstlinger. After him are Jack Vance, Ildefonsus, Károly Kerényi, Akka Mahadevi, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and William Carlos Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Ion Creangă ranks 33Before him are Pierre Auguste Cot, Vasily Radlov, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Joseph Bell, Édouard Stephan, and James Murray. After him are Wild Bill Hickok, Abraham Kuyper, Arnold Janssen, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Among people deceased in 1889, Ion Creangă ranks 22Before him are Wilhelm Tempel, Giovanni Bottesini, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Robert Browning, and Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. After him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, John Ericsson, Ignacy Domeyko, Gaston Planté, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, and Viktor Bunyakovsky.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Creangă ranks 96 out of 665Before him are György Kurtág (1926), Arnold Hauser (1892), Rezső Kasztner (1906), Ana Aslan (1897), Dositej Obradović (1742), and Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903). After him are Károly Kerényi (1897), Artur Phleps (1881), Endre Ady (1877), Michael Cretu (1957), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), and Christopher Báthory (1530).

Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Ion Creangă ranks 11Before him are Elie Wiesel (1928), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Panait Istrati (1884), and Dositej Obradović (1742). After him are Károly Kerényi (1897), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Vasile Alecsandri (1821), and Dora d'Istria (1828).