Ana Cartianu
Ana Cartianu (19 April 1908[1] - 24 April 2001[2]) was a Romanian academic, essayist and translator.[3]
She studied at Bedford College, London (1928–32), and received her degree from the Literature Department, School of English Studies of Cernăuți University in 1934.
In 1936, she co-founded the School of English Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, where she would later be dean of the School of Germanic Languages (1948-1970).
Ana Cartianu is known as the "great dame of English studies in Romania.[4]
In 1930, she married Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, a university professor. Her maiden name was Tomescu.[5]
Awards
- Romanian Writers' Union Award for translations from Romanian (1973)
Books (selection)
- An Advanced Course in Modern Rumanian (co-author, with Leon Levițchi, Virgiliu Ștefănescu-Drăgănești), București, Ed. Științifică, (1958) (1964)
- Proză eseistică victoriană. Antologie, ("An Anthology of Victorian Essays"), (co-editor, with Ștefan Stoenescu), București, (1969)
- Dicționar al literaturii engleze ("A Dictionary of English Literature"), (co-author, with Ioan Aurel Preda), București (1970)
Translations
- Short Stories by Ioan Slavici, 1955
- Romanian Folk Tales, 1979
- Nicolae Ciobanu, Romanian Fantastic Tales, 1981
- Mihai Zamfir, History and Legend in Romanian Short Stories and Tales, 1983
- Vasile Voiculescu, Tales of Fantasy and Magic, 1986
- Selected Works of Ion Creangă and Mihai Eminescu, 1992
- Mircea Eliade, Mystic Stories: The Sacred and the Profane, 1992
- The Tales and Stories of Ispirescu, Murrays Children's Books, London
Bibliography
- Ana Cartianu: Festschrift (Editura Universității din București, 2000)
- Aurel Sasu, Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, Vol. A-L, Ed. Paralela 45, Pitești, 2006, p. 280
References
- ↑ Calendar General - 19 aprilie
- ↑ "Agenda Zilei" (in Romanian). crisana.ro. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ↑ (Romanian) Geta Dumitru, "Ana Cartianu", in România Literară, 18/2001
- ↑ "America in/din Romania" (in Romanian). Observator cultural.
- ↑ "GHEORGHE CARTIANU-POPESCU (1907 – 1982) Membru corespondent al Academiei Române, profesor universitar emerit, specialist de reputa?ie interna?ional? în domeniul radiocomunica?iilor" (in Romanian).
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