PETRU IAMANDI, PhD, is an associate professor with the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania, and a member of the Romanian Writers' Union. Among the most prominent authors he has translated are Nobel Prize winners John Steinbeck, Nadine Gordimer and Harold Pinter, the Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan, and the Women's Prize for Fiction winner A. M. Homes.