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Ion Creangă
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Ion Creangă (1837–1889) was a Romanian writer, born in the village of Humulești in Moldavia, the son of a peasant family. Trained for the priesthood, he was ordained a deacon in Iași but was expelled from the clergy for his unruly conduct, and became a schoolteacher and the co-author of reading primers. His friendship with the poet Mihai Eminescu brought him to the Junimea literary society, where he read his work aloud. His fairy tales — Capra cu trei iezi, Punguța cu doi bani, Povestea lui Harap-Alb — and his memoir Amintiri din copilărie are among the classics of Romanian literature, admired above all for the life of their spoken village language.
