Mihail Sadoveanu(1880-1961)

Born in Pascani, Moldova he got a rural education, and at age of 17 published his first sketch in a weekly paper in Bucharest. At age of 20 decide to quit Law studies and to live from writing. Between 1910 and 1919 is the director of National Theater from Iasi and in 1921 become a full member of Romanian Academy. Is extremely productive in historical novels in the period between the World Wars. After the WWII and the occupation of Romania by the Russian Red Army, begins to get political positions in the new communist regime, the highest position being the Parliament speaker. Dies at age of 81 in Bucharest and is buried next to greatest Romanian poet Mihail Eminescu and play-writer Ion Luca Caragiale.