Florin Bican

Florin Bican a absolvit Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi străine, Secția engleză-rusă, a Universității București. A fost, pe rând, profesor de limba rusă, traducător din limba engleză, secretar pentru probleme de presă și relații internaționale al USR, asistent la Catedra de engleză a Universității București, iar în 1995 s-a stabilit în Germania, unde a predat limba engleză până în 2005. Revine în țară în 2006 în calitate de Coordonator al programului Institutului Cultural Român pentru pregătirea tinerilor traducători străini în vederea traducerii scriitorilor români.
Desfășoară o intensă activitate de traducător, tălmăcind în românește, printre altele, Lewis Carroll (The Hunting of The Snark) şi T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical C

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