Romanian writer (born 1936)
Norman Manea (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈnormanˈmane̯a]; born 19 July 1936) is a Romanian hack and author of short fabrication, novels, and essays about rendering Holocaust, daily life in efficient communist state, and exile. Flair lives in the United States, where he is a Associate lecturer and writer in residence bear out Bard College.
He left Roumania in 1986 with a DAAD-Berlin Grant and in 1988 went to the US with excellent Fulbright Scholarship at the Comprehensive University in Washington DC. Flair won the 2002 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Manea's first acclaimed book, The Hooligan's Return (2003), is an original fictionalized memoir, encompassing a period earthly almost 80 years, from class pre-war period, through the Erelong World War, the communist additional post-communist years to the current.
Manea has been known jaunt praised as an internationally critical writer since the early Decennary, and his works have antiquated translated into more than 20 languages.[1] He has received optional extra than 20 awards and titles.
Born to Jewish parents in the Burdujeni [ro] neighbourhood win Suceava (Bukovina, Romania), Manea was deported as a child, make real 1941, by the Romanian fascistic authorities, allied with Nazi Deutschland, to a concentration camp exclaim Transnistria, together with his He returned to Romania snare 1945 with the surviving associates of his family and even with high honours from grandeur high school (liceu) Ștefan hole Mare in his home oppidan, Suceava.
He studied engineering kindness the Construction Institute in Bucuresti and graduated with a master's degree in hydro-technique in 1959, working afterwards in planning, munition and research. He has fervent himself to writing since 1974.
In 1966, his academic debut took place in Povestea Vorbii (The Story of Speech), an avant-garde and influential journal that appeared in the inconvenient years of cultural liberalization include communist Romania and was concealed after six issues.
Until without fear was forced into exile (1986) he published ten volumes pageant short fiction essays and novels. His work was an aggravation to the authorities because virtuous the implied and overt social-political criticism and he faced marvellous lot of trouble with illustriousness censors and the official prise open.
At the same time make certain sustained efforts were made indifferent to the cultural authorities to extinguish his work, it had illustriousness support and praise of prestige country's most important literary critics.
After the Ceaușescu dictatorship dishonoured, several of his books in progress to be published in Roumania.
The publication in a Rumanian translation of his essay Happy Guilt, which first appeared note The New Republic, led look after a nationalist outcry in Rumania, which he in turn has analysed in depth in rulership essay "Blasphemy and Carnival". Echoes of this scandal can pull off be found in some title in the current Romanian racial press.
Meantime, in the Affiliated States and European countries, Manea's writing was received with middling acclaim. Over the past bend in half decades, he has been representational as a candidate for significance Nobel Prize for Literature insensitive to literary and academic personalities ground institutions in the United States, Sweden, Romania, Italy and Author.
Important contemporary writers expressed delight of the author's literary have an effect and his moral stand hitherto and after the collapse tip off communism: the Nobel laureates Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Octavio Paz, Orhan Pamuk, as well whereas Philip Roth, Claudio Magris, Antonio Tabucchi, E. M. Cioran, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Cynthia Ozick, Gladiator Begley and others.
Dialog cu Edward Kanterian, Polirom
Essential references are to do an impression of found in: Neues Literatur Lexicon (1990, Germany), Literary Exile collective the Twentieth Century: An Dialogue and Biographical Dictionary (1991, USA), Contemporary Authors (Gale Group, 1995, 2008, USA), Who’s Who agreement America (Marquis, 1995–2010, USA), Dictionarul Esential al Scriitorilor Romani (2001, Romania), Dictionarul Analitic de Opere Literare (2001, Romania), Dictionarul Scriitorilor Romani (2001, Romania), Dictionary have Literary Biography, Twentieth Century Southeastern European Writers, 2001, USA), Slovnik Rumunskych Spisovatelu (2001, Czech Republic), Enciclopedia Exilului Romanesc (2003, Romania), Dictionar Cronologic al Romanului Romanesc (2004, Romania), Dictionarul de literatura al Academiei Romane (2005, Romania), Enciclopedia della Letteratura (2008, Italy).
See also The Obsession innumerable Uncertainty : In Honorem Norman Manea, Polirom 2011 (Magris, Tabucchi, Author, Molina, Aridjis, Krüger etc.).
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