Andrei Bantaș
Andrei Bantaş was a Romanian lexicographer, translator and teacher.
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, București, Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, 1979
- co-author of Didactica traducerii.
Translations (selection)
- Ioan Flora, Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii / Fifty Novels and Other Utopias, trans. Andrei Bantaş and Richard Collins.
- Charles Dickens – Viaṭa Mântuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos
- W. Somerset Maugham – Vălul pictat
- Arthur Koestler- Al treisprezecelea trib: Khazarii
- Samuel Butler- Ṣi tu vei fi ṭărână
- W. Somerset Maugham- Plăcerile vieṭii
- D. H. Lawrence- Omul care murise
- Oscar Wilde- Toate povestirile
Awards
- Romanian Writers' Union Prize
