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Ion Iovan

Born 1937 · Romania

In English
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Books on prize lists

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    Observator cultural 2016 · Shortlist

    M J C

    Ion Iovan · 78 when first published

    Novel · Historical

    AI-generated summary:Mateiu Caragiale turns his back on his famous father and sets out to live by the code of the dandy, becoming the absolute dandy of Bucharest, a figure full of whims and neuroses.

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    Observator cultural 2009 · Winner

    Ultimele însemnări ale lui Mateiu Caragiale

    Title translated by AI:“The Last Notes of Mateiu Caragiale”

    Ion Iovan · 71 when first published

    Novel · 552 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:An apocryphal diary of the last years of the writer Mateiu Caragiale, the self-styled count, in which a secondary figure of literary history becomes the hero and the documented facts of his life are filled out with imagination.