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Dennis Deletant

Dennis Deletant was born in Norfolk, U.K., in 1946. He teaches Romanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies within the University of London. Deletant first visited Romania in 1965, when he attended the courses of the Summer School in Sinaia, an event organized by the University of Bucharest.

Dennis Deletant
He continued his studies in Romania due to a postgraduates’ scholarship granted by the British Council in 1969 and kept coming to Romania after finishing his studies, until 1988, when he was declared persona non grata because of his publishing unfavorable articles regarding the Ceausescu regime in the British press.

At the end of December 1989, Dennis Deletant came back to Bucharest as a BBC consultant on the period of the Romanian Revolution. In 1990, he became a member of the Consultative Committee of the British Government's Know-How Fund, thus becoming involved in the Committee's actions regarding Romania. Dennis Deletant was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contribution in this field.

Books

Colloquial Romanian, 1983
Teach Yourself Romanian, 1992 (co-author Yvonne Alexandrescu)
Romania, 1985 (co-author Andrea Deletant)
Historians as Nation Builders, 1988 ( co-author H. Hanak)
Studies in Romanian History, 1991
Communist Terror in Romania, 1998

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