WRITER

Ion Luca Caragiale

1852 - 1912

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Ion Luca Caragiale (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon ˈluka karaˈdʒjale]; 13 February [O.S. 30 January] 1852 – 9 June 1912), commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale, was a Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humour. Alongside Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ion Luca Caragiale has received more than 324,258 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ion Luca Caragiale is the 1,513th most popular writer (down from 1,512th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Romania (down from 101st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Romanian Writer.

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Notable Works

Teatru
1984
Racconti
1955
La posada de Manhuiol
2015
Opere
1959
Nuvele, povestiri, amintiri, varia
1981
Une nuit orageuse, suivi de "M'sieu Léonida face à la réaction" et "Une lettre perdue"
1997

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 1,513 out of 7,302. Before him are Jonas Mekas, George of Pisidia, Louise Labé, Vladimir Korolenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, and Babrius. After him are Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, J. G. Ballard, Semonides of Amorgos, Ahmed Shawqi, Hugo Claus, and Diagoras of Melos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 35. Before him are Christian Krohg, Victor Adler, Pietro Gasparri, John Louis Emil Dreyer, Hans Vaihinger, and Edmund Leighton. After him are Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Max von Gallwitz, I. L. Peretz, John Harvey Kellogg, Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, and Théophile Delcassé. Among people deceased in 1912, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 35. Before him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Isidor Straus, Henry Tingle Wilde, Georg Heym, and Mykola Lysenko. After him are Nicholas of Japan, Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, William Booth, W. T. Stead, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, and Wallace Hartley.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 102 out of 844. Before him are Rezső Kasztner (1906), Farkas Bolyai (1775), Ben Ferencz (1920), Aureolus (220), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), and Christopher Báthory (1530). After him are Mundzuk (368), Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903), Marcel Janco (1895), Andrew Báthory (1563), Serge Klarsfeld (1935), and Petru Rareș (1487).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Ion Luca Caragiale ranks 12. Before him are Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), and Károly Kerényi (1897). After him are Lajos Zilahy (1891), Ion Creangă (1837), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916), Dora d'Istria (1828), and Marthe Bibesco (1886).

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