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

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n academic, essayist and translator.

Biography

She was born in Urșani village, in Horezu 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

Cernăuți University Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, uk, Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City o ...

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

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...

, 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 Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu (8 August 1907–26 June 1982) was a Romanian engineer. He was born in Borca, Neamț County. After attending elementary school in his native commune and in Dobrovăț, Iași County, he went to high school in Bacău, ...

, a university professor. Her maiden name was Tomescu. She died in

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in 2001.

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 Mircea Eliade (; – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religiou ...

, ''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 translators Romanian–English translators Romanian essayists Academic staff of the University of Bucharest 20th-century translators Alumni of Bedford College, London 20th-century essayists People from Horezu