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Annie Bentoiu

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Annie Bentoiu (1 May 1927 – 21 December 2015) was a Romanian-born Swiss writer and translator.[2][3]

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The daughter of Constantin Deculescu, a Romanian doctor and politician, and Violette Bujord, a native of Switzerland, she was born Annie Deculescu in Bucharest and grew up there and in Oltenița. She attended the Central School [fr] in Bucharest, going on to study law at the University of Bucharest and literature and history at the Institut français de Roumanie [fr].[4][1][5]

In 1949, she married composer Pascal Bentoiu.[4][5]

She translated Romanian literature into French.[1] She was awarded the Prix de l'Union des Écrivains for her translations in 1979, 1983 and 1991.[6] In 2000, she was awarded a medal by the President of Romania for her work in translating the works of Mihai Eminescu.[3]

Selected works

  • Strada Mare novel (in Romanian) (1969) as Adriana Vlad
  • Poèmes I/II poetry (in French) (1989)
  • Dix méditations sur une rose poetry (in French) (1989)
  • Phrases pour la vie quotidienne poetry (in French) (1990)
  • Timpul ce ni s-a dat volume 1 memoir (in Romanian) (2000)
  • Timpul ce ni s-a dat volume 2 memoir (in Romanian) (2006)
  • Voyage en Moldavie (in French) (2001)
  • Une liberté désenchantée (in French) (2009)

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References

  1. [1]
    "Annie Bentoiu" (in Romanian). Humanitas.
  2. [2]
    "Suferinţă şi adevăr: In Memoriam Annie Bentoiu" (in Romanian). Radio Free Europe. December 22, 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Annie Bentoiu" (in Romanian and French). PEN România. March 7, 2011.
  4. [4]
    "Instalarea comunismului văzută prin ochii unei familii". Revista 22 (in Romanian). May 28, 2013. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  5. [5]
    Publications, Europa (2004). International Who's Who in Poetry. Taylor & Francis. p. 30. ISBN 1857431782.
  6. [6]
    "Annie Bentoiu (1927-2016)" (in French). Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne.[permanent dead link]
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