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Place of Birth: Costeștii din Vale, Dâmbovița County, Romania
About I. C. Vissarion
- Iancu Constantin Vissarion (February 2, 1879–November 5, 1951) was a Romanian prose writer. Born in Coste?tii din Vale, Dâmbovi?a County, his father was a merchant of Greek origin, not officially married to his mother Ilinca.
- After he attended primary school in his native village from 1886 to 1891, his mother died.
- He subsequently moved to Titu and then to his grandfather's home in Bucharest, where he learned the shoemaker's trade from 1892 to 1895.
- He briefly worked as a clerk at the sub-prefectural office in Titu.
- In 1898, he married Gheorghi?a; the couple would have ten children.
- For a few months in 1901, he served as mayor of Coste?tii din Vale.
- Working as a farmer, he took part in the 1907 peasants' revolt; arrested and sentenced to death, he was freed upon the intervention of Ion G.
- Duca.
- He was a health inspector in 1907-1908, 1913 and 1919, and a school inspector in 1920.
- During World War I, he was employed as a military censor.Vissarion's first book was a collection of folk tales, Draci ?i strigoi (1899).
- His work appeared in România muncitoare, Ra?iunea, Flacara, Sburatorul and Via?a Româneasca.
- In 1913, he was an editor at Rampa and Facla.
- He held several patents for inventions, including an airplane, ventilated shoes and a wheelchair.
- From 1932 to 1935, he edited Stelu?a magazine; its contributors included Gala Galaction and Al.
- T.
- Stamatiad.
- In 1918, he was awarded the Romanian Academy's Adamachi Prize for his 1916 short story collection Florica ?i alte nuvele.
- Other volumes included Nevestele lui Mo? Dragoman (1913), Privighetoarea neagra (1916) and Ber-Caciula (1920); these were the product of what Eugen Lovinescu termed an "inexhaustible memory", the author "melted into the anonymous mass of the people".
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