Ion Grămadă

Born in Zaharești (now in Suceava County, Romania), he was registered at Czernowitz University and afterwards at the Universität in Vienna, where he studied History and Geography.

Upon returning to his native region, Ion Grămadă founded the news magazine Deșteptarea ("The Awakening") in Czernowitz in 1907, and also worked as an editor at the local paper Viața Nouă ("The New Life").

In 1916, as soon as Romania entered World War I on the Entente side, he enlisted in the Romanian Army, and specifically asked to be sent to fight to the front line.

Ion Grămadă, who was of the most interesting writers of Bukovina, authored short stories which, in his lifetime, were only published sporadically in various literary magazines.

They reveal a beautiful prose, with sensitive tension and mystery, specific to the literary trends of Central Europe, and with psychological technique and remarkable skills of portrayal.