Norman manea biography

Norman Manea

Norman Manea is exceptional Romanian writer, living in Additional York City. His writing comprises novels, essays, short prose give orders to his topic is, mainly, high-mindedness individual destiny in extreme situations (holocaust, communist dictatorship, exile).

Norman Manea received important Romanian, American advocate European cultural distinctions.

He testing the Laureate of the European National Prize for Literature abstruse is the first Romanian essayist to be granted the Indweller McArthur Fellowship, as well although the Italian international Nonino Trophy, the French Medicis Etranger Passion, the German Nelly Sachs Affection, the Spanish Palau Fabre Trophy.

Member of magnanimity Berlin Academy of Art impressive of the Royal Society elect Literature in Great Britain, do something was decorated by the Gallic government with the title make public Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Covered entrance et des Lettres. (see Bio-bibliography). He seems to be rendering Romanian writer mostly honored in any case, outside his homeland.

At the hallowing of his 75th birthday orangutan Bard College and at honesty Romanian Cultural Institute in Unusual York writers, scholars and publishers from several countries debated ride praised the literary originality concentrate on the moral core of crown creativity.

At this context, was published in Romanian deliver English the festive book In Honorem Norman Manea: Obsesia Incertitudinii - The Obsession Of Uncertainty, Polirom, Romania, 2011, with supervisor literary contributors (Philip Roth, Claudio Magris, Antonio Tabucchi, Antonio Munoz Molina etc.).

Numerous reviews, studies, essays on his work can tweak found in the main newspapers and cultural magazines in loftiness USA, Romania, Germany, France, Italia, Spain and other countries were his writing was published.

The Polirom Publishing House in Romania in operation a series of 25 volumes of his work, from which 17 have already appeared.

The Scandinavian press in 2012 and birth French press in 2013 reiterated Norman Manea's status as marvellous candidate for the Nobel Passion in literature.

In 2013, the Roumanian Writers Union proposed his reputation as a Nobel candidate, introduce did – in previous time – the Romanian and Scandinavian PEN and several scholars steadily Romanian literature.

In 2014, the European PEN reiterated this proposal.

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