2016

Norman Manea

Romania, 1936

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Biography

Born in Suceava (Bucovina, Romania) on July 19, 1936, his life and work have been marked by his early years in a concentration camp, and his later existence under the communist dictatorship and exile. El regreso del húligan (2003), Felicidad obligatoria (1999), El sobre negro (1986), Payasos: el dictador y el artista (1997), La quinta imposibilidad (2012), El impermeable (1990), and his short stories collected in the volume El té de Proust (2010) are highlighted titles from Manea’s extensive oeuvre. He has been recognized with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur Fellowship, the New York Public Library Literary Lion Medal, the Nonino International Literary Prize, election to the Berlin Academy of Arts in 2006, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Medal of Cultural Merit awarded by the President of Romania in 2007, honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bucharest and Cluj (Romania), and the Legion of Honour (France) in 2008.

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