Ana Cartianu (19 April 1908 – 24 April 2001) was a

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n academic, essayist and translator.

Biography

She was born in the village of in

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commune,

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. She studied at Bedford College,

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(1928–32), and received her degree from the Literature Department, School of English Studies of

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in 1934. In 1936, she co-founded the School of English Language and Literature at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

, 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". In 1930, she married Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, a university professor. Her maiden name was Tomescu. She died in

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in 2001.

Awards

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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 ), 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 * , ''History and Legend in Romanian Short Stories and Tales'', 1983 *

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, ''Tales of Fantasy and Magic'', 1986 * ''Selected Works of Ion Creangă and Mihai Eminescu'', 1992 *

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, ''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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cartianu, Ana 1908 births 2001 deaths Romanian–English translators Academic staff of the University of Bucharest 20th-century Romanian translators Alumni of Bedford College, London 20th-century Romanian essayists People from Horezu