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A founding member of the Romanian Writers' Society and later President of the Romanian
Writers' Union, Sadoveanu was also a member of the Romanian Academy since 1921 and a
recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize for 1961. He was also Grand Master of the Romanian
Freemasonry during the 1930s. The father of Profira and Paul-Mihu Sadoveanu, who also
pursued careers as writers, he was the brother-in-law of literary critic Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan.