Ioan Slavici
Romanian writer
Died when: 77 years 211 days (930 months)Star Sign: Capricorn

Ioan Slavici (Romanian pronunciation: [i'o?an 'slavit??]; 18 January 1848 – 17 August 1925) was a Romanian writer and journalist from Hungary, later from Romania.
He made his debut in Convorbiri literare ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy Fata de birau ("The Mayor's Daughter").Alongside Mihai Eminescu he founded the Young Romania Social and Literary Academic Society and organized, in 1871, the Putna Celebration of the Romanian Students from Romania and from abroad.
At the end of 1874, he settled in Bucharest, where he became secretary of the Hurmuzachi Collection Committee, then he became a professor, and then an editor of the newspaper Timpul ("The Time").
Alongside Ion Luca Caragiale and George Co?buc, he edited the Vatra ("The Hearth") magazine.During World War I, he collaborated at the newspapers Ziua ("The Day") and Gazeta Bucure?tilor ("The Bucharest Gazette").
He was awarded the Romanian Academy Award (1903).