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Ion Creangă
Nică al lui Ștefan a Petrei
Ion Torcălău
Ioan Ștefănescu
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Born 1837
Târgu Neamț
Died December 31, 1889
Iași
Pen name Popa Smântână, Ioan Vântură-Țară
Occupation Short story writer, educator, folklorist, poet, textile worker, cleric,
politician
Nationality Moldavian, Romanian
Period 1864–2021
Genre Anecdote, children's literature, erotic literature, fable, fairy tale,
fantasy, lyric poetry, memoir, novella, satire, short story, sketch story
Literary movement Realism, Junimea
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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 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"). Widely seen as masterpieces of the
Romanian language and local humor, his writings occupy the middle ground between a
collection of folkloric sources and an original contribution to a literary realism
of rural inspiration. They are accompanied by a set of contributions to erotic
literature, collectively known as his "corrosives".

A defrocked Romanian Orthodox priest with an unconventional lifestyle, Creangă m