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Dan Duțescu

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Name
  
Dan Dutescu

Died
  
September 26, 1992

Role
  
Writer

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Dan Duţescu (21 October 1918 – 26 September 1992) was a professor of English language and literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and a member of the Romanian Writers' Union.

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A graduate of the School of English Studies of the Bucharest University's Department of Letters, he taught Romanian at the Universities of London (1964-1965) and Cambridge (1971-1973).

He had a son, Dan, and a daughter, Taina Duţescu-Coliban, a linguist and mountain climber who went missing in 1992 while trying to climb Mt. Dhaulaghiri.

Published books (selection)

  • Limba engleză fără professor ("Teach Yourself English"), co-author (with Leon Levițchi)
  • Humour in English (Ed. Ştiinţifică, 1964)
  • Manual de conversaţie în limba engleză (ed. I - Ed. Ştiinţifică, 1970; ed. II - 1973; ed. III - 1976)
  • Spoken English - Manual de conversaţie în limba engleză (ed. a IV-a, Ed. Miron, 1991)

    • Translations (selection)

  • Antologia bilingvă Shakespeare ("Shakespeare Bilingual Anthology"), co-author (with Leon Levițchi), 1964
  • Hamlet, co-author (with Leon Levițchi)
  • Richard III, co-author (with Leon Levițchi)
  • Beowulf, co-author (with Leon Levițchi)
  • Povestiri din Canterbury ("The Canterbury Tales") by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Trolius si Cressida ("Troilus and Criseyde") by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Cartea ducesei ("The Book of the Duchess") by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Cartea faimei ("The House of Fame") by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Legenda femeilor vestite ("The Legend of Good Women") by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Like Diamonds in Coal Asleep, co-author (with Leon Levițchi and Andrei Bantaș)
  • Romanian Poets of Our Time, co-author, 1974, Univers Publishing House
  • Meșterul Manole

    • Awards

  • He was awarded the Romanian Writers' Union Translation Prize for his translations twice, for his translations of Chaucer and Meșterul Manole

    • References

    Dan Duțescu Wikipedia
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