Education
At Iaşi he finished his first five years of junior high/high school (Costache Negruzzi) and his last two years of high school at the National high school of Iaşi, graduating in 1914.
At Iaşi he finished his first five years of junior high/high school (Costache Negruzzi) and his last two years of high school at the National high school of Iaşi, graduating in 1914.
He went to primary school in the village of Călmăţui where his father was a teacher. He enrolled in the Iaşi Conservatory and for a time in the Law faculty. One of his most famous plays is Take, Ianke şi Cadîr (1933), about a Romanian, a Romanian Jew, and a Turk, respectively.
The play was set in Podeni, one of the neighborhoods of Bârlad.
Plays:
Ciuta, 1922
Muşcata din fereastră, 1928
Take, Ianke şi Cadîr, 1933
Acord familiar
Cuiul lui Pepelea
Răzbunarea sufleurului
Răspântia cea mare
Teatrul Victor Ion Popa (the Victor Ion Popa Theatre) in Bârlad was dedicated in his honor.