Norman Manea

Norman Manea ( born July 19, 1936 in Burdujeni, Suceava ) is a Romanian writer, of Jewish origin, who lives in the United States.

Life

1941 Manea was deported to Transnistria in a Romanian concentration camp, he lived with his entire family.

In the 1960s, a decade of the "thaw " in the land of relative liberalization, he became a writer. He described life in a totalitarian regime, but without criticizing the communist regime directly. In 1986 he left Romania. After a year in West Berlin, he moved to the United States. His essay on the anti-Semitic thinking Mircea Eliade and its proximity to fascism brought about in 1991 a defamatory campaign against him. Manea was established in 2006 as a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and published regularly in the journal Sinn und Form. Manea lives in New York City where he is Professor of European Studies and Culture at Bard College.

1992 was Manea MacArthur Fellow, 2011, he was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize.

Works

  • Biography robot and other stories Steidl 1987
  • Window to the working class. Steidl 1989
  • Training for paradise Gerhard Steidl Verlag 1990
  • The trench coat Steidl 1990
  • Partition. Narratives. Steidl 1992
  • The opinion of the censor. In: meaning and form 1/ 1996, pp. 109-123 [ autobiographical account of the censor of the Securitate ]
  • The black envelope. Carl Hanser 1998
  • Aftermath of the truth. Comments on the Holocaust debate. In: meaning and form 2/1999, pp. 268-274
  • About clowns. Essays Carl Hanser 2002
  • Notes to the exiled language. In: meaning and form 2/2003, pp. 181-200
  • The Return of the Hooligan. Self Portrait Hanser 2004. Again Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-833302941
  • October eight clock. Narratives. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, 2007. ISBN 978-3-446-20921-3.
  • Fifty years Nouvelle Revue Française in Bucharest. The Cioran - Noica debate. In: meaning and form 3/2010, pp. 326-330
  • Encounter with Cioran. In: Sinn und Form 6/2010, pp. 725-738
  • Conversations in exile, with Hannes Stein, Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-608-0
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