Dan Duțescu

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 theRomanian Writers' Union.

A graduate of the School of English Studies of the Bucharest University's Department of Letters, he taught Romanian at the
[1]
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.[2]

Contents
Works
Published books (selection)
Translations (selection)
Awards
References

Works

Published books (selection)

Limba engleză fără professor("Teach Yourself English"), co-author (withLeon 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[3]
References
Aurel Sasu, Dictionarul biografic al literaturii române (A-L), Paralela 45, Pitesti, 2006, p. 546
Andrei Bantaș, Un spirit fermecător: Dan Duțescu, in România literară, 7 Oct. 1992
Zoe Dumitrescu Bușulenga, in Secolul 20, nr. 7, 1974
Andrei Bantaș, in Argeș, nr. 3, 1978
Pia Teodorescu Brânzeu, inOrizont, nr. 38, 1982
Dan Grigorescu, in Literatorul, nr. 42, 1992

1. Sasu, Aurel (2006). Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române (A-L). Paralela 45. p. 546.
2. Aronescu, S. (May 26, June 4, 9, 1992). "Scrisori din Himalaya".Cotidianul. Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. Andrei Bantaș, Un spirit fermecător: Dan Duțescu, in "România literară", 7 Oct. 1992

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