The English version of the early 20th century Romanian novel Craii de Curtea veche - The Old Court Libertines was brought out in 2021 in the USA. The translator of the novel is Sean Cotter. The translator teaches Comparative literature and Translation studies with the University of Dallas in Texas. Sean Cotter specializes in Modernism, and in the Theory and History of translation. Sean Cotter also specializes in the literature of South-East Europe. Mateiu Caragiale’s novel, The Old Court Libertines, was brought out in 1929. It is arguably one of Romanian literature’s most relevant novels: lots of afficionados revolved around the book. According to a classification compiled by the Cultural Observer magazine in the early 2000, The Old Court Libertines was rated as the best novel in Romanian literature. According to Sean Cotter’s version, the title in English goes like Rakes of the Old Court. We sat down and spoke to Sean Cotter about the translation process proper, whic
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For the first time, Romanian literature will have a history spoken to foreigners, in English, all within a thousand page book which is about to be written by a few Romanian researchers, coordinated by professor Andrei Terian-Dan from the Lucian Blaga University in central Sibiu, who managed to win a 1.45 million Euro grant from the European Council for Research, after a competition, known as the Nobel for European Grants .
The University of Sibiu, where Andrei Terian-Dan is Deputy Rector, is the first university in Romania to implement such a European research project. The project will last for five years. It will probably begin sometime in the middle of the next year, and I hope that by the end of 2026 we will have a history of the Romanian literature, in English, of approximately 1,000 pages, in one or two volumes, that will be published by a prestigious Western publisher. We do not have a history especially conceived for the foreign public an
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