Victor Ion Popa (; July 29, 1895 in

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– March 30, 1946 in

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) was a

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dramatist. He went to

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in the village of Călmăţui, a village in the Grivița commune, in the former

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, where his father was a schoolteacher. At

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he finished his first five years of junior high/high school at the Costache Negruzzi Boarding High School and his last two years of high school at the

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, graduating in 1914. He enrolled in the Iași Conservatory and for a time in the Law Faculty of the

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. One of his most famous plays is (1932), about three small merchants, a Romanian, a Romanian Jew, and a Turk, respectively. The play was set in Podeni, one of the neighborhoods of

. Plays: * '' Ciuta'', 1922 * '' Mușcata din fereastră'', 1928 * ''Take, Ianke şi Cadîr'', 1932 * ''Acord familiar'' * ''Cuiul lui Pepelea'' *'' Răzbunarea sufleurului'' * ''Răspântia cea mare'' Novel: * “ Sfârlează cu fofează” (Spinner with propeller) The Victor Ion Popa Theatre (''Teatrul Victor Ion Popa'') in Bârlad was dedicated in his honor.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Popa, Victor Ion 1895 births 1946 deaths People from Bârlad 20th-century Romanian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Romanian writers