Alexandru Cazaban (October 6, 1872–May 24, 1966) was a Romanian prose writer.
Born in IaÃÂi to François Cazaban, who was of French origin, he graduated from the city's National College in 1895, following which he entered an architecture school that he did not complete. He worked by turns as a proofreader at Românul, a rural schoolteacher, a draftsman, a veterinarian and a civil servant at the bridge and highway agency, before re-entering the newspaper business with the support of Alexandru VlahuÃÂàand Barbu ÃÂtefÃÂnescu Delavrancea. In 1898, he edited Bolta rece magazine at IaÃÂi, publishing humorous vignettes. His own publishing debut involved satirical sketches that appeared in Anton BacalbaÃÂa's MoàTeacÃÂ.
Cazaban contributed short prose for the second series of Ion Luca Caragiale's Moftul român, as well as for Zeflemeaua, Revista literarÃÂ, FlacÃÂra, ViaÃÂa RomâneascÃÂ, LuceafÃÂrul, Universul and AdevÃÂrul. He wrote short stories, sketches and tales published in volumes that included DeÃÂtept bÃÂiat! (1904), Chipuri ÃÂi suflete (1908), Oameni cumsecade (1911), ÃÂntre femeie ÃÂi pisicà(1913), PÃÂcatul sfinÃÂiei sale (1915), Dureri neînÃÂelese (1917), ÃÂntre frac ÃÂi cojoc (1922) and VÃÂzute ÃÂi auzite (1958), as well as the 1924 novel Un om supÃÂrÃÂtor. His writings evoked provincial life and also cast a somewhat harsh light on the rural environment. An avid hunter, his 1939 Povestiri vânÃÂtoreÃÂti deals with the topic. In 1937, he won the Romanian national prize for prose. He died in Bucharest in 1966 at the age of 93.