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Ion Luca Caragiale
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Ion Luca Caragiale (1852–1912) was a Romanian playwright, short-story writer and journalist, widely regarded as the greatest dramatist in the Romanian language. Born near Ploiești, he worked as a prompter, journalist, teacher and civil servant, and was a member of the Junimea literary society alongside Mihai Eminescu and Ion Creangă. His comedies — O noapte furtunoasă, Conu Leonida față cu reacțiunea, D-ale carnavalului and above all O scrisoare pierdută — and his satirical sketches mock the vanity, jargon and political opportunism of the new Romanian middle class. He spent his last years in Berlin. The writer Mateiu Caragiale was his son.
