“One could almost say that Sadoveanu rebuilds in present day Moldavia [...] the Holland of wine jugs and kitchen tables covered in venison and fish.”
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Mihail Sadoveanu
Mihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the Socialist Republic of Romania. One of the most prolific Romanian-language writers, he is remembered mostly for his historical and adventure novels, as well as for his nature writing. An author whose career spanned five decades, Sadoveanu was an early assoc…
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culture · Romanian writer, journalist and politician (1881–1961) · linguist · poet · writer · journalist · biographer · children's writer · translator · politician · also Mihail Sadoveanu, Mihai din Pașcani, M. S. Cobuz, Sadoveanu
Born 5 November 1880 · Died 19 October 1961 · Q526518
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2026· 1 entry
2004· 1 entry
When the country marked a hundred years since Sadoveanu's debut, Șoimii was published in its 15th edition
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2001· 1 entry
A poll carried among literati by Observator Cultural magazine listed six of his works as some of the best 150 Romanian novels
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1989· 1 entry
Just before the Romanian Revolution, Dan Pița produced his film The Last Ball in November, based on Locul unde nu s-a întâmplat nimic
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1969· 1 entry
Romanian studios produced a film version of Baltagul, directed by Mircea Mureșan and with Sidonia Manolache as Vitoria Lipan
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1962· 1 entry
Time also commented that his style was "curiously dated" and recalled not Sadoveanu's generation, but that of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, "although he has nothing like the power or skill of any of them
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1961· 1 entry
Died 1961-10-19.
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1958· 3 entries
Career landmark: Chairperson of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly (1958–1958).
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Art critic Krikor Zambaccian as "the synthesis of Baba's art", depicting "a man of letters aware of his mission [and] the leading presence of an active consciousness"
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Career landmark: head of state of Romania (1958–1958).
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1952· 1 entry
As Romania adopted its second republican constitution and the authorities intensified repression against anti-communists, Sadoveanu made some of his most controversial statements
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1950· 3 entries
Moved back to Bucharest, where he owned a house near the Zambaccian Museum
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Was named President of the Writers' Union, replacing Zaharia Stancu
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Went through a period of neglect and was finally set up as a museum in 1980
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1949· 2 entries
It earned Sadoveanu the first-ever State Prize for Prose
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Sadoveanu became its Honorary President
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1948· 1 entry
After Romania's King Michael I was overthrown by the BPD-member parties and the communist regime officially established, Sadoveanu rose to the highest positions ever granted to a Romanian writer, and received significant
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1947· 1 entry
Career landmark: head of state of Romania (1947–1948).
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1946· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania (1946–1948).
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1945· 2 entries
Claiming to have been "flashed upon" by "Stalin's argumentation", he urged the public to read the document for its "sincerity"; elsewhere, he equated reading the constitution with "a mystical revelation"
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Sadoveanu journeyed to the Soviet Union together with some of his fellow ARLUS members—among them biologists Parhon and Săvulescu, sociologist Dimitrie Gusti, linguist Iorgu Iordan, and mathematician Simion Stoilow
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1944· 2 entries
Tudor Vianu spoke of Sadoveanu as "the most significant writer Romanians [presently] have, the first among his equals
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By Anii de ucenicie ("The Apprenticeship Years"), where Sadoveanu details some of his earliest experiences
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1942· 1 entry
Sadoveanu again retreated to the countryside, in his beloved Arieș area, where he had built himself a chalet and a church; this seclusion produced his Povestirile de la Bradu-Strâmb ("Bradu-Strâmb Stories")
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1941· 1 entry
Before its final part was in print, Călinescu argued that the novel was part of Sadoveanu's "most valuable work", and noted "the maturity of its verbal means
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1940· 2 entries
The official establishment Editura Fundațiilor Regale published the first volume of his Opere ("Works")
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Offered controversial praise to the ruler through the official journal, Revista Fundațiilor Regale, which caused Carol's political adversary, psychologist Nicolae Mărgineanu, to deem Sadoveanu and his fellow contribut
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1938· 1 entry
The short story Ochi de urs ("Bear's Eye") introduces its hero Culi Ursake, the toughened hunter, into a bizarre scenery that seems to mock a human's understanding
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1937· 1 entry
Porunca Vremii congratulated ultra-nationalists who had organized public burnings of Sadoveanu's works in Southern Dobruja and in Hunedoara, as well as non-identified people who sent the writer packages containing shredd
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1936· 1 entry
The writer accepted the honorary chairmanship of Adevărul and its morning edition, Dimineața
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1935· 1 entry
17 years after Transylvania's union with Romania and 15 years after the Treaty of Trianon, Sadoveanu joined the Hungarian author Gyula Illyés in pleading for good relations between the two neighbors
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1934· 1 entry
Was more noted among critics, for both intimate tone and hagiographic character (recounting Stephen's life on the model of saints' biographies)
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1932· 1 entry
Thus replacing the vacating George Valentin Bibescu
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1931· 2 entries
Career landmark: President of the Senate of Romania (1931–1932).
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Female author and feminist militant Sarina Cassvan included French-language versions of his texts into an anthology designed to promote modern Romanian culture internationally
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1930· 1 entry
Sadoveanu, Topîrceanu and the schoolteacher T
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1928· 1 entry
But was probably a member since 1926 or 1927
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1926· 3 entries
The year of his entry into Alexandru Averescu's People's Party, Sadoveanu motivated his choice in a letter to Octavian Goga, indicating his belief that the intelligentsia needed to partake in politics: "It would seem tha
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“s literature. His most significant pieces in this field are Dumbrava minunată (”
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After a period of indecision, Sadoveanu rallied with the People's Party, where his friend, the poet Octavian Goga, was a prominent activist
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1925· 1 entry
1929 and 1930 respectively, he published his critically acclaimed novels Venea o moară pe Siret
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1921· 1 entry
Sadoveanu was elected a full member of the Romanian Academy; he gave his reception speech in front of the cultural forum two years later, structuring it as a praise of Romanian folklore in general and folkloric poetry in
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1918· 1 entry
When Romania signed the peace with the Central Powers, and, as Army reservist, edited the Entente's regional propaganda outlet, România
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1916· 1 entry
Abruptly switched to the Entente camp: his enthusiasm as propaganda officer was touched by controversy once Romania experienced massive defeats; Sadoveanu himself abandoned the Entente cause by 1918, when he was decom
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1910· 1 entry
Was also appointed head of the National Theater Iași, a position which he filled until 1919
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1909· 1 entry
Sadoveanu also published adapted version of two ancient writings: the Alexander Romance (as Alexandria) and Aesop's Fables (as Esopia)
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1906· 2 entries
With the left-wing Poporanists at Viața Românească
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Again handed down for print four separate volumes
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1905· 2 entries
Sadoveanu also published Povestiri din război ("Stories from the War"), which compose scenes from the lives of Romanian soldiers fighting in the War of 1878
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Was employed as a clerk by the Ministry of Education, headed by the Conservative Party's Mihail Vlădescu
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1904· 1 entry
Regained Bucharest, where he became a copyist for the Ministry of Education's Board of Schools, returning to Fălticeni two years later
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1903· 1 entry
Sadoveanu contributed works to the traditionalist journal Sămănătorul, led at the time by historian and critic Nicolae Iorga
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1902· 1 entry
When fragments were published by Pagini Alese magazine under the pseudonym M
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1901· 1 entry
Sadoveanu married Ecaterina Bâlu, with whom he settled in Fălticeni, where he began work on his first novellas and decided to make his living as a professional writer
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1900· 1 entry
Intending to study law at the University's Faculty of Law, but withdrew soon after, deciding to dedicate himself to literature
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1897· 1 entry
That a sketch story, titled Domnișoara M din Fălticeni ("Miss M from Fălticeni") and signed Mihai din Pașcani ("Mihai from Pașcani"), was successfully submitted for publishing to the Bucharest-based satirical magazine Dr
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1896· 1 entry
When he was aged sixteen, Sadoveanu gave thought to writing a monograph on Moldavian Prince Stephen the Great, but his first literary attempts date from the following year
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1887· 1 entry
Sadoveanu attended primary school in Pașcani
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1880· 1 entry
Born 1880-11-05.
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