Vasile Savel

Vasile Savel (January 25, 1885–May 17, 1932) was a Romanian prose writer.

Born in Fălticeni, his parents were Ecaterina and Ion, a priest and teacher; the family lived on the same road as Mihail Sadoveanu. He attended gymnasium in his native town, followed by the Boarding High School in Iași from 1897 to 1904. He subsequently studied literature and law at the University of Bucharest, earning a degree in the latter field. Obliged to earn his own money, he entered journalism in 1904, editing Minerva, Seara and România newspapers. His work appeared in Flacăra, Mișcarea literară, Dimineața, Presa, Sămănătorul, Viața Românească, Luceafărul and Cuvântul liber. He served as secretary general of the Romanian Writers' Society, which he had joined in 1911. His debut brochure, the 1906 Opera d-lui Ilarie Chendi, featured incisive observations; a polemical work that often unfairly targeted the journalistic activity of Ilarie Chendi, it drew wide comment. A reserve officer, he took part in both the Second Balkan War and World War I, often seeing frontline action. He returned to journalism after the war, initially at Arad; from 1928, he edited the official gazette of the National Peasants' Party, Dreptatea. In the first volume of Contimporanii (1920), he sketched biographical portraits of several writers he knew personally: Emil Gârleanu, N. D. Cocea, T. Robeanu, Cincinat Pavelescu, Panait Cerna, Ludovic Dauș, Ștefan Octavian Iosif and Dimitrie Anghel.

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