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Romanian academic, essayist and translator
Ana Cartianu (19 April 1908 – 24 April 2001) was a Romanian academic, essayist and translator.[1]
Biography She was born in Urșani village, in Horezu commune, Vâlcea County . 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.[2]
In 1930, she married Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu , a university professor. Her maiden name was Tomescu.[3] She died in Bucharest in 2001.
Awards 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 , 1955Romanian Folk Tales , 1979Nicolae Ciobanu, Romanian Fantastic Tales , 1981 Mihai Zamfir, History and Legend in Romanian Short Stories and Tales , 1983 Vasile Voiculescu , Tales of Fantasy and Magic , 1986Selected Works of Ion Creangă and Mihai Eminescu , 1992Mircea Eliade , Mystic Stories: The Sacred and the Profane , 1992The Tales and Stories of Ispirescu , Murrays Children's Books, LondonBibliography 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
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