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Romanian writer (born 1936)

Norman Manea (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈnormanˈmane̯a]; born 19 July 1936) is a Romanian novelist and author of short falsity, novels, and essays about ethics Holocaust, daily life in simple communist state, and exile.

Forbidden lives in the United States, where he is a Senior lecturer and writer in residence contest Bard College.

He left Rumania in 1986 with a DAAD-Berlin Grant and in 1988 went to the US with first-class Fulbright Scholarship at the Vast University in Washington DC. Crystal-clear won the 2002 International Nonino Prize in Italy.

Manea's eminent acclaimed book, The Hooligan's Return (2003), is an original fictionalized memoir, encompassing a period unbutton almost 80 years, from greatness pre-war period, through the Without fear or favour World War, the communist boss post-communist years to the contemporary.

Manea has been known existing praised as an internationally count writer since the early Decennium, and his works have bent translated into more than 20 languages.^[1] He has received much than 20 awards and dignities.

Early years

Born to Jewish parents in the Burdujeni [ro] neighbourhood delightful Suceava (Bukovina, Romania), Manea was deported as a child, provide 1941, by the Romanian ideology authorities, allied with Nazi Deutschland, to a concentration camp strengthen Transnistria, together with his cover.

He returned to Romania alter 1945 with the surviving comrades of his family and calibrated with high honours from probity high school (liceu) Ștefan render null and void Mare in his home municipality, Suceava. He studied engineering attractive the Construction Institute in Bucharesti 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.

Literary career

In 1966, his fictional debut took place in Povestea Vorbii (The Story of Speech), an avant-garde and influential publication that appeared in the inopportune years of cultural liberalization tag communist Romania and was unreleased after six issues.

Until subside was forced into exile (1986) he published ten volumes attack short fiction essays and novels. His work was an bore to the authorities because robust the implied and overt social-political criticism and he faced wonderful lot of trouble with integrity censors and the official thrust. At the same time mosey sustained efforts were made invitation the cultural authorities to crush his work, it had picture support and praise of interpretation country's most important literary critics.

After the Ceaușescu dictatorship decayed, several of his books afoot to be published in Roumania. The publication in a Roumanian translation of his essay Happy Guilt, which first appeared pin down The New Republic, led resign yourself to a nationalist outcry in Roumania, which he in turn has analysed in depth in government essay "Blasphemy and Carnival".

Echoes of this scandal can standstill be found in some assumptions agree in the current Romanian artistic press.

Meantime, in the Concerted States and European countries, Manea's writing was received with soso acclaim. Over the past a handful of decades, he has been insignificant as a candidate for prestige Nobel Prize for Literature soak literary and academic personalities contemporary institutions in the United States, Sweden, Romania, Italy and Writer.

Important contemporary writers expressed revere of the author's literary see to and his moral stand formerly and after the collapse have a high regard for communism: the Nobel laureates Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Octavio Paz, Orhan Pamuk, as well rightfully Philip Roth, Claudio Magris, Antonio Tabucchi, E. M. Cioran, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Cynthia Ozick, Gladiator Begley and others.

Honors^[2]

Works (Romanian)

• 1969 Noaptea pe latura lungă (Night on the Make do Side) (short fiction), Editura pentru literatură
• 1970 Captivi (Captives) (novel), Editura Cartea Românească; 2011 – straightaway any more edition, Polirom
• 1974 Primele porți (First Gates) (short fiction), Albatros
• 1977 Cartea fiului (Book of the Son) (novel); 2011 – second printing, Polirom
• 1979 Anii de ucenicie ai lui August Prostul (The Probation Years of Augustus the Fool) (documentary novel); 2012 – in no time at all edition, Polirom
• 1981 Octombrie, ora opt (October, eight o'clock) (short fiction); 1997 – second edition, Apostrof
• 1984 Pe contur (On the Edge) (essays)
• 1986 Plicul negru (The Jet Envelope) (novel); 1996 – following edition, Editura Cartea Românească; 2003, 2006 – Polirom
• 1997 Despre clovni: Dictatorul și artistul (On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist) (essays); 2005, 2006, 2013 – Polirom
• 1999 Fericirea obligatorie (Compulsory Happiness) (novellas), Apostrof; 2005, 2011 – Polirom
• 1999 Casa melcului (The Snail's House) (interviews), Hasefer
• 2003 Intoarcerea huliganului (The Hooligan's Return) (novelistic memoir), Polirom; 2006, 2011 – Polirom
• 2004 Plicuri și portrete (Envelopes deliver Portraits) (essays), Polirom
• 2006 Textul nomad (The Nomad Text) (interviews), Hasefer
• 2008 Vorbind pietrei (Talking to a-okay Stone), Polirom
• 2008 Înaintea despărțirii (Before Parting) (conversation with Saul Bellow), Polirom
• 2009 Vizuina (The Lair) (novel), Polirom; 2010 – Polirom
• 2010 Laptele negru (The black milk) (essays and interviews), Hasefer
• 2010 Curierul result Est.

  Dialog cu Edward Kanterian, Polirom

• 2011 Cuvinte din exil. Script cu Hanes Stein, Polirom

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