Petru Iamandi

PETRU IAMANDI, PhD, is an associate professor with the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, Dunărea de Jos University of Galaţi, Romania, and a member of the Antares editorial staff. He has written American Culture for Democracy (2001), English and American Literature – Science Fiction (2003), American History and Civilization (2004), SF - Literature about the Future (2004), An Outline of American English (2008), An Introduction to Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting (2010), and compiled an English-Romanian Dictionary (2000). He is the co-author and co-editor of several dictionaries and English textbooks, and has edited a number of anthologies. He has translated about sixty books from English into Romanian and from Romanian into English (prose, poetry, drama, non-fiction). In 2008, the Dramatic Theatre in Galaţi staged his translation of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. Some of his translations have appeared in various British and American magazines.