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Birău ("The Mayor's Daughter") - Alongside: (I O̯an Slavitʃʲ) Romanian Transylvania Romania Mihai Eminescu

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oan Slavici 

(Romanian pronunciation: [iˈo̯an ˈslavitʃʲ]; 18 January 1848 – 17 August 1925) was


a Romanian writer and journalist from Transylvania, later from Romania.
He made his debut in Convorbiri literare ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy Fata de
birău ("The Mayor's Daughter"). Alongside Mihai Eminescu he founded the Young Romania Social
and Literary Academic Society and organized, in 1871, the Putna Celebration of the Romanian
Students from Romania and from abroad. At the end of 1874, he settled in Bucharest, where he
became secretary of the Hurmuzachi Collection Committee, then he became a professor, and then
an editor of the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"). Alongside Ion Luca Caragiale and George Coșbuc,
he edited the Vatra ("The Hearth") magazine. During World War I, he collaborated at the
newspapers Ziua ("The Day") and Gazeta Bucureștilor ("The Bucharest Gazette"). He was awarded
the Romanian Academy Award (1903).

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