Valeriu Munteanu (philologist)
Valeriu Munteanu was a Romanian philologist, lexicographer, and translator.
After studying law in Sibiu and Cluj, he studied philology in Bucharest, and Nordic languages in Uppsala, Sweden.
He translated into Romanian writers such as Hjalmar Bergman, August Strindberg, Artur Lundkvist, Hans Scherfig, Herman Bang, Sigrid Undset, Knut Hamsun.
Orders, Prizes
Source:- Knight of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star 1st Class
- the Danish Order of the Dannebrog
- Swedish Academy's translation prize
- Romanian Writers' Union translation prize