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Name
  
Andrei Bantas

Died
  
1997, Bucharest, Romania

Role
  
Author

Books
  
Dictionar economic englez-roman

Andrei Bantaş (November 30, 1930, Iaşi – January 17, 1997 Bucharest) was a Romanian lexicographer, translator and teacher.

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He was professor of English language and literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Together with Leon Levițchi he is one of the best known authors of English/Romanian dictionaries.

The Andrei Bantaş Translation Prize is named after him.

Books (selection)

  • Bantaş, Andrei & Rădulescu, Mihai, Capcanele limbii engleze - False Friends, Bucureşti, Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, 1979
  • co-author (with Elena Croitoru) of Didactica traducerii ("The Didactics of Translation").

    • Translations (selection)

  • Ioan Flora, Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii / Fifty Novels and Other Utopias, trans. Andrei Bantaş and Richard Collins (Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1996).
  • Charles Dickens – Viaṭa Mântuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos ("The Life of Our Lord")
  • W. Somerset Maugham - Vălul pictat ("The Painted Veil")
  • Arthur Koestler- Al treisprezecelea trib: Khazarii ("The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage")
  • Samuel Butler- Ṣi tu vei fi ṭărână ("The Way of All Flesh")
  • W. Somerset Maugham- Plăcerile vieṭii ("Of Human Bondage")
  • D. H. Lawrence- Omul care murise ("The Man Who Died")
  • Oscar Wilde- Toate povestirile

    • Awards

  • Romanian Writers' Union Prize (1978)

    • References

    Andrei Bantaș Wikipedia
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