Virgil Caraivan (February 12, 1879 – 1966) was a
Romanian prose writer.
Born in
Șuletea
Șuletea is a communes of Romania, commune in Vaslui County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Fedești, Jigălia, Rășcani and Șuletea.
Natives
* Virgil Caraivan
References
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Communes in Vaslui County
Localit ...
,
Vaslui County, his parents were the schoolteacher Neculai Caraivan and his wife Smaranda. He went to primary school in his native village, followed by gymnasium in nearby
Bârlad and high school in
Piatra Neamț
Piatra Neamț (; german: Kreuzburg an der Bistrița (Siret), Bistritz; hu, Karácsonkő) is the capital city of Neamț County, in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in northeastern Romania. Because of its privileged location in the Easter ...
, which he completed in 1900. In 1903, he graduated from the literature and law faculty of the
University of Bucharest. His first published work appeared in ''Noua revistă română'' in 1901 and consisted of the study "Ritmul muncii în poeziile populare". His first book was the 1901 collection of stories and anecdotes ''La șezătoare'', followed by ''Povești'' (1908), ''Doamna Ilina'' (1909), ''Movila roșie'' (1913) and ''La gura sobei'' (1924). He edited ''Tribuna'' newspaper in 1903 and the magazines ''Răzeșul'' (1926) and ''Documente răzășești'' (1932). Publications that ran his work include ''
Luceafărul'', ''
Sămănătorul'', ''Floarea darurilor'' and ''Ion Creangă''. A founding member of the
Romanian Writers' Society, he served as cashier from 1908. After 1933 he withdrew to the countryside and worked as a farmer. His literary activity was varied, including translations from
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...
and from world folklore (''Povești de pretutindeni'', 1908; ''Povești franceze'', 1909; ''Povești corsicane'', 1910), and the difficult-to-classify collection .
[Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 274. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. ]
He died in
Bucharest in 1966.
Notes
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1879 births
1966 deaths
People from Vaslui County
University of Bucharest alumni
Romanian male short story writers
Romanian short story writers
Romanian newspaper editors
Romanian magazine editors
Romanian translators
Date of death missing