Victor Ion Popa (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈviktor iˈon ˈpopa]; July 29, 1895, in Bârlad – March 30, 1946, in Bucharest) was a Romanian dramatist.
He went to primary school in the village of Călmăţui, a village in the Grivița commune, in the former Tutova County, where his father was a schoolteacher. At Iași 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 National High School, graduating in 1914. He enrolled in the Iași Conservatory and for a time in the law faculty of the University of Iași.
One of his most famous plays is Take, Ianke și Cadîr (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 Bârlad.
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.
Notes
- "Take, Ianke și Cadîr, piesa care i-a adus nemurirea lui Victor Ion Popa" [Take, Ianke and Cadîr, the play that brought immortality to Victor Ion Popa]. dosaresecrete.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 22 June 2022.