Victor Ion Popa


Victor Ion Popa was a Romanian dramatist.
He went to primary school in the village of Călmăţui where his father was a teacher. At Iaşi he finished his first five years of junior high/high school and his last two years of high school at the National high school of Iaşi, graduating in 1914. He enrolled in the Iaşi Conservatory and for a time in the Law faculty.
One of his most famous plays is Take, Ianke şi Cadîr, about a Romanian, a Romanian Jew, and a Turk, respectively. The play was set in Podeni, one of the neighborhoods of Bârlad.
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Teatrul Victor Ion Popa in Bârlad was dedicated in his honor.