Eugeniu Botez (1874 –1933), who became famous for his sea sketches under the pseudonym Jean Bart, was a Romanian naval officer and writer, and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. He is considered a modernizer who introduced cosmopolitan themes and a crisp prose style into Romanian literature. Stephen Henighan is Professor and Head, Spanish and Hispanic Studies, University of Guelph, Canada. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He has published voluminously as a scholar, journalist, novelist, short story writer and translator, with sixteen books as single author, two books as collaborative author, more than fifty refereed articles and book chapters and five books as translator.
