C. George Sandulescu

Who is C. George Sandulescu?

Constantin George Sandulescu, is a Joycean scholar, but in the first place, he is a linguist with twelve years' experience in the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the University of Stockholm in the 1970s and 1980s, specializing in Discourse Analysis. In that capacity he read a dozen or so papers at various international congresses.

His education includes a B.A. degree, M.Phil. and Ph.D.. George Sandulescu has worked as a researcher at university level for 12 years in Romania, for 12 years in Sweden, and for 12 years in the Principality of Monaco. He taught at Bucharest University between 1962–1969. He has lived, worked, and conducted research and teaching in major institutions in Romania, Sweden, Great Britain, the United States and Italy.

After the death in 1983 of Princess Grace of Monaco, he substantially assisted in founding the Monaco library bearing her name, and organised important International Conferences there devoted to James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and Oscar Wilde. On the invitation of Prince Rainier III, and together with the British writer Anthony Burgess, also a resident of Monaco, George Sandulescu was one of the founders of the Princess Grace Irish Library of Monaco—the fundamental purpose of which was to publish literary criticism in two distinct series of publications, produced by Colin Smythe Ltd, of Gerrards Cross. More than 25 volumes were published in the period from 1985 to 1997; the programme had stopped by 2000.