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 (1928-1932), 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

1. Calendar General - 19 aprilie
2. "Agenda Zilei" (in Romanian). crisana.ro. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
3. (Romanian) Geta Dumitru, "Ana Cartianu", in România Literară, 18/2001
4. "America in/din Romania" (in Romanian). Observator cultural.
5. "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).