Ion Luca Caragiale facts for kids

Ion Luca Caragiale
Quick facts for kids Ion Luca Caragiale
	Ion Luca Caragiale
Born	February 13, 1852; Haimanale, Wallachia
Died	June 9, 1912 (aged 60); Berlin, German Empire
Pen name	Car., Ein rumänischer Patriot, Luca, i, Ion, Palicar
Occupation	short story writer, playwright, journalist, essayist, actor, translator, poet, civil servant, restaurateur
Nationality	Romanian
Period	1873–1912
Genre	drama, comedy, tragedy, short story, sketch story, novella, satire, parody, aphorism, fantasy, reportage, memoir, fairy tale, epigram, fable
Subject	everyday life, morals and manners, politics, social criticism, literary criticism, music criticism
Literary movement	Junimism, Naturalism, Neoclassicism, Neoromanticism, Realism
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Ion Luca Caragiale (1 February 1852, Haimanale, Romania - 9 June 1912, in Berlin, Germany) was a Romanian playwright, novelist, poet, theatre director and journalist.

Images for kids

Caragiale in Balkan costume, photographed ca. 1900
The adolescent Caragiale
Caragiale in his youth
The Russian Army in Bucharest, print in The Illustrated London News (1877)
Ion Luca and Mateiu Caragiale before 1900
First printed version of D-ale carnavalului, as published in Convorbiri Literare (May 1885)
Alexandrina Burelly
The building in Buzău, across the street from the city railway station, where Caragiale leased a restaurant in 1895
Caragiale as a traveler, parting with Epoca (1890s caricature by Constantin Jiquidi)
Caragiale in 1899
Alexandru Davila and Ion Luca Caragiale
Caragiale's grave in the Bellu cemetery (flanked by those of Mihai Ralea and Traian Săvulescu)
Anti-dynasty cartoon, published in Ghimpele in 1872, and illustrating the differences of opinion inside the liberal camp. Left panel: Alexander John Cuza betrayed by Ion Brătianu; right panel: Carol I, supported by Otto von Bismarck and Brătianu, feeding off of German influence and economic privilege
Caragiale (left) and Alexandru Vlahuţă
Early 20th century panorama of Sinaia
Târgul Moşilor, the fair in Obor (late 19th-century painting by Sava Henția)
We are all honest people, let's embrace one another, and let this be over with, 1834 print by Honoré Daumier
Ion Luca Caragiale memorial house in his native village
George Coşbuc and Ion Luca Caragiale