Author's CV
Norman
MANEA was born in
Burdujeni in the district (judeţ)
of Suceava, which is
located in the Romanian province of Bukovina, on July 19, 1936. Along
with the entire Jewish population of Bukovina, he was deported in
October 1941 to the concentration camps in Transnistria in the
Ukraine. He returned to Romania with the surviving members of his
family at the end of the Second World War. In 1986 he left Romania as
the result of Communist persecution. He lived in West Berlin for one
year and has been living in the United States since 1988. He is
Francis Flournoy Professor in European Studies and Culture and Writer
in Residence at Bard College.
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT: ROMANIA
In
1959 he graduated from the “Ştefan cel Mare” lycée in Suceava.
He was awarded a master’s degree in hydro-technological engineering
from the Construction Institute in Bucharest in 1959. From 1959 to 1974 he worked as an engineer with emphasis on planning, fieldwork and research. He has devoted himself to writing since 1974.
PUBLICATIONS
(periodicals/anthologies):
Translated
into twenty languages, his short fiction and essays have appeared in
periodicals and collections around the world. Organized by country,
the list includes:
Romania: Viaţa Românească,
Ramuri,
România
literară,
Vatra,
Luceafărul,
Contemporanul,
Steaua,
Familia,
Echinox,
Apostrof,
Timpul,
Bucureştiul
cultural,
Contra-Punct,
Euphorion,
România liberă,
Evenimentul zilei, Revista 22, Cotidianul, Cuvîntul, Observator
cultural, Dilemateca, Lettre Internationale
Germany: Akzente,
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, Lettre
Internationale, Neue
Rundschau, Sinn
und Form
France: Les Temps Modernes,
La Nouvelle Revue
Française, Le
Serpent a Plume, Revue de Deux Mondes,
Le Monde,
Libération
Switzerland: Neue Zurcher Zeitung
Spain: Quimera. La Vanguardia,
El País, Revista de Occidente,
Letras Libres
and Letra Internacional
England: Comparative Criticism,
Critical Quarterly
Italy: Linea d'Ombra,
Corriere de la Sera,
La Stampa,
La Republicca,
Diario,
Lettera Internationale,
Nuovi Argumenti
Mexico: Vuelta
South
Korea: Seqeui Munhak
Israel: Ydiot Aharonot,
Haaretz
Austria: Europaische Rundschau
Poland: Gazeta Wyborcza,
Literatura na świecie
Taiwan: Taipei Times
China: Book Town
Denmark: Politiken
Hungary: 2000, Magyar Napló
Japan: The Japan Times, Hermes
New
Zealand: The Timaru
Herald
Bangladesh: The Independent
Egypt: Daily Star
Tanzania: The Guardian
Jordan: Al Ghad
Kuwait: Al Jaridaa
Lebanon: The Daily Star
Qatar: Al Arab
Saudi
Arabia: Al Eqtisadiah
United
States: The New
Republic, The
New Yorker, The
New York Review of Books,
Partisan Review,
Paris Review,
Conjunctions,
Salmagundi,, American
Poetry Review
TriQuarterly
This
is a representative sample.
Anthologies:
His fiction has been included in anthologies published in the United
States, Holland, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Israel, Germany, France and
elsewhere.
PUBLICATIONS
(books)
ROMANIA:
1969 Noaptea pe latura lungă
/ Night on the Long Side (short
fiction).
Bucharest:
Editura pentru Literatură.
1970 Captivi / Captives
(a novel). Bucharest: Cartea Românească.
1974 Atrium / Atrium,
(a novel). Bucharest: Cartea Românească.
2008 Atrium / Atrium,
(a novel), second edition. Iaşi: Polirom.
1975 Primele porţi / First
Gates (short fiction).
Bucharest: Albatros.
1976 Cartea Fiului / The
Book of the Son (a
novel). Bucharest: Eminescu.
1977 Zilele şi jocul / The
Days and the Game (a
novel). Bucharest: Cartea Românească.
1979 Anii de ucenicie ai lui
August Prostul / The
Apprenticeship of Augustus the Fool
(documentary novel). Bucharest: Cartea Românească.
2005 Anii de ucenicie ai lui
August Prostul / The
Apprenticeship of Augustus the Fool
(documentary novel), second edition, Iaşi: Polirom.
1981 Octombrie, ora opt /
October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction). Cluj-Napoca: Dacia.
1997 Octombrie, ora opt /
October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction), second edition (revised).
Cluj-Napoca: Apostrof.
1984 Pe Contur / Skimming
the Edge
(essays).
Bucharest: Cartea Românească.
1986 Plicul negru / The
Black Envelope (a
novel). Bucharest: Cartea Românească.
1996 Plicul negru / The
Black Envelope (a
novel), second edition (revised).
Bucharest: Editura
Fundaţiei Culturale Române.
2003 Plicul negru / The
Black Envelope (a
novel), third edition.
Bucharest:
Cartea Românească.
2006 Plicul negru / The
Black Envelope (a
novel), fourth edition. Iaşi: Polirom.
1997 Despre Clovni:
Dictatorul şi Artistul / On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist,
(essays).
Cluj-Napoca: Apostrof.
2005 Despre Clovni:
Dictatorul şi Artistul / On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist,
(essays), second edition. Iaşi: Polirom.
1999 Fericirea obligatorie /
Compulsory Happiness
(longer short fiction) Cluj-Napoca: Apostrof.
2005 Fericirea obligatorie /
Compulsory Happiness
(longer short fiction), second edition.
Iaşi: Polirom,.
1999 Casa Melcului / The
Snail's House(interviews). Bucharest: Hasefer.
2003 Întoarcerea
huliganului / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir.
Iaşi: Polirom.
2006 Întoarcerea
huliganului / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir,
second edition. Iaşi: Polirom.
2008 Întoarcerea
huliganului / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir,
third edition. Iaşi: Polirom.
2004 Plicuri şi portrete /
Envelopes and Portraits (memoir).
Iaşi : Polirom,.
2006 Textul nomad / The
Nomad Text
(interviews). Bucharest: Hasefer.
2008 Vorbind
pietrei / Talking to a Stone (poem, accompanied by a translation into
10 languages:
English, Hebrew, German, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian,
Polish, Swedish, French, Italian).
Iaşi: Polirom.
2008 Înaintea despărţirii.
Convorbire cu Saul Bellow / Before Parting: Conversation with Saul
Bellow.
Iaşi:
Polirom.
2008 Sertarele exilului.
Dialog cu Leon Volovici / The Drawers of Exile: Conversations with
Leon Volovici.
Iaşi:
Polirom.
2008 Variante la un
autoportret / Variations on a Self-portrait (short
fiction, various lengths). Iaşi: Polirom.
GERMANY:
1987 Roboterbiographie und
andere Erzählungen /
Robot-biography and
Other Stories (short
fiction).
Göttingen:
Steidl Verlag, 1988.
1989 Fenster zur
Arbeiterklasse / A Window on the Working Class
(longer short fiction).
Göttingen:
Steidl Verlag.
1990 Der Trenchcoat / The
Trenchcoat (a
short novel).
Göttingen: Steidl
Verlag.
1990 Training
fürs Paradies / Training for Paradise(short fiction). Göttingen:
Steidl Verlag.
1992 Trennwand / Partition
(short fiction). Göttingen:
Steidl Verlag.
1998 Über Clowns / On
Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays). Munich: Hanser Verlag.
2004 Die Rückkehr des
Hooligan – Ein Selbstporträt / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir.
Munich: Hanser Verlag.
2006 Die Rückkehr des
Hooligan – Ein Selbstporträt / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir,
second edition. Berlin: Berlin Verlag.
2005 Der Schwarze
Briefumschlag / The Black Envelope
(a novel). Munich: Hanser Verlag.
2007 Oktober,
acht Uhr / October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction). Munich: Hanser Verlag.
ITALY:
1990 Ottobre
ore otto / October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction). Milan: Serra e Riva, Mondadori.
1998 Ottobre ore otto /
October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction), second edition. Milan: Il Saggiatore.
2005 Ottobre ore otto /
October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction), third edition. Milan: Il Saggiatore.
1994 Un
paradiso forzato / Compulsory Happiness
(longer short fiction). Milan: Feltrinelli.
2008 Felicità
obligatoria [first published as Un paradiso forzato, Milan: Feltrinelli] / Compulsory Happiness
(longer short fiction), a new edition. Milan: Il Saggiatore
1995 Clown:
Il dittatore e l’artista / On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays). Milan: Il Saggiatore.
1999 Clown:
Il dittatore e l’artista / On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays),
second edition. Milan: Il Saggiatore.
2004 Clown: Il dittatore e
l’artista / On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays),
third edition. Milan: Il Saggiatore.
1999 La busta nera / The
Black Envelope (a
novel). Milan: Baldini Castoldi Dalai.
2004 Il
Ritorno dell'Huligano – Una vita / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir.
Milan: Saggiatore.
2007 Il Ritorno
dell'Huligano – Una vita / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir,
second edition.
Milan: Il Saggiatore.
2006 La
quinta impossibilità / The Fifth Impossibility (essays).
Milan: Il Saggiatore.
2009 Prima di andarsene / Before Parting: Conversation with Saul
Bellow. Milan: Il Saggiatore.
FRANCE:
1990 Le
thé de Proust / October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction). Paris: Albin Michel.
1991 Le
bonheur obligatoire / Compulsory Happiness (
longer short fictions),
Paris: Albin Michel.
2006 Le bonheur obligatoire / Compulsory Happiness (longer
short fiction),
second edition. Paris: Seuil.
2006 Le
retour du hooligan / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir.
Paris: Seuil.
2007 L'heure exacte / The Exact Hour
(short
fiction). Paris: Seuil.
SPAIN
AND LATIN AMERICA:
1992 Una ventana hacia la
clase trabajadora / A Window on the Working Class
(longer short fiction). Madrid: Grupo Libro.
1994 Octubre
a las ocho / October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction). Buenos Aires: EMECE.
2000 El
sobre negro / The Black Envelope
(a novel). Trans. Joaquín Garrigós Bueno.
Madrid: Metáfora.
2008 El sobre negro / The
Black Envelope (a
novel), second edition. Barcelona: Tusquets.
2005 El
Regreso del Húligan / The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir.
Barcelona: Tusquets.
2006 Payasos
– El dictador y el artista / On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays) Barcelona: Tusquets.
2007 Felicidad
obligatoria / Compulsory Happiness
(longer short fiction), Barcelona: Tusquets.
2007 La
llengua nomada / The Nomad Text
(essay). Barcelona: Arcàdia.
NETHERLANDS:
1989 Leergeld
/ Teaching Money
(short fiction). Amsterdan: Meulenhoff.
1992 Het
verhoor / The Interrogation (longer
short fiction). Amsterdam: Meulenhoff.
2006 De
terugkeer van de hooligan – Memoires / The Hooligan's Return: A
Memoir. Amsterdam:
Meulenhoff.
2009 De zwarte envelop
/ The Black Envelope
(novel). Amsterdam: Meulenhoff
(to
be published in May, 2009).
MEXICO:
1991 El
impermeable / The Trenchcoat,
(a short novel). Mexico City: Vuelta.
2001 El
sobre negro / The Black Envelope
(a novel). Mexico City: Alfaguara.
ISRAEL:
1996 Oktober, She Shmoneh /
October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction). Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Schocken.
1998 Ha'maatafa Ha'shova /
The Black Envelope (a
novel). Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Schocken.
2008 Shuvu Shel Hahooligan
/ The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir.
Tel Aviv: Nimrord.
NORWAY:
1995 Obligatorisk
Lykke / Compulsory Happiness
(longer short fiction). Oslo: Geelmuyden
Kiese Publishing.
1999 Den
Svarte Konvolutten / The Black Envelope
(a novel). Oslo: Geelmuyden
Kiese Publishing.
POLAND:
2000 Październik,
godzina ósma /
October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction). Trans. Halina Mirska-Lasota.
Sejny: Fundacja
Pogranicze.
2000 O klownach –
Dyktator i Artysta / On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays).
Trans.
Halina Mirska-Lasota. Sejny: Fundacja Pogranicze.
HUNGARY:
2003 Bohócokról.
A diktátor és a művész / On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays). Budapest:
Europa.
2009 A huligán visszatér / The Hooligan's Return. Pécs: Alexandra Kiadó
CZECH
REPUBLIC:
2008 Chuligánův návrat /
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir.
Prague: Havran.
GREECE:
2000 O
Mairos Fakelos / The Black Envelope
(a novel). Athens: Kastaniotis.
2003 Hypochreotike
Eudaimonia / Compulsory Happiness
(longer short fiction) Athens: Agra, 2003)
2003 Peri
Gelotopoion: ho diktatoras kai ho kallitechnes / On Clowns: The
Dictator and the Artist
(essays). Athens: Agra.
ENGLAND:
1992 October,
Eight O’clock (short
fiction). Trans. Cornelia Golna / Anselm Hollo London: Quartet.
1994 Compulsory
Happiness (longer
short fiction). Trans. from French: Linda Coverdale. London:
Faber&Faber.
1994 On
Clowns (essays).
Trans. by the author. London: Faber&Faber.
1995 The
Black Envelope (a
novel). Trans. Patrick Camiller. London: Faber&Faber.
UNITED
STATES:
1992 October,
Eight O’clock (short
fiction). Trans. Cornelia Golna / Anselm HolloNew York: Grove Press.
1993 October, Eight O’clock
(short fiction),
second edition. New York: Grove Press.
1992 On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays). Trans. by the author. New York: Grove Press.
1994 On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist,
second edition. Trans. by the author.
New York: Grove Press.
1993 Compulsory
Happiness (longer
short fiction). Trans. from French: Linda Coverdale.
New York:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
1994 Compulsory
Happiness (longer
short fiction), second edition. Trans. from French: Linda Coverdale.
Chicago: Northwestern University Press.
1995 The Black Envelope
(novel). Trans. Patrick Camiller New York: Farrar, Straus &
Giroux.
1996 The Black Envelope
(novel), second edition. Trans. Patrick Camiller.
Chicago:
Northwestern University Press.
2003 The Hooligan's
Return: A
Memoir. Trans. Angela
Jianu. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
2005 The Hooligan's Return:
A Memoir,
second edition. Trans. Angela Jianu.
New York: Farrar, Straus &
Giroux.
CHINA:
2007 The Black Envelope
(novel). Beijing: New Star Publishers.
2007 On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
(essays). Beijing: New Star Publishers.
2007 The Hooligan's Return:
A Memoir.
Beijing: New Star Publishers.
Forthcoming
books: France, Italy, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia,
Hungary, Poland
AWARDS
AND GRANTS
1979 – Literary Prize of the Bucharest
Writers’ Association (Romania)
1984 – Literary Prize of the Romanian Writers’
Union, 1984 (withdrawn by the Communist authorities)
1987
– DAAD Berliner Kunstler Programm Grant, 1987 (Germany)
1988
– Fulbright Scholarship, Catholic University, Washington D.C. (USA)
1989-1992
– International Academy for Scholarship and the Arts Fellowship, Bard College (USA)
1992
– Guggenheim Fellowship (USA)
1992
– MacArthur Fellows Award (USA)
1993
– The Literary Lion Medal of the New York Public Library (USA)
1993
– On Clowns: The
Dictator and the Artist
(essays), New York: Grove Press, wins The National Jewish Book Award (USA)
1996
– The Marie Syrkin Jerusalem Fellowship in Letters (Israel)
1997
– The Bukovina Literary Prize (Romania)
2002
– The Nonino International Literary Prize for “Opera Omnia”
(Italy)
2004-2005
– American Academy Fellowship in Berlin (Germany)
2004
– The Napoli Literary Prize for foreign novel (Italy)
2005
–
Holtzbrinck Prize of The American Academy in Berlin (Germany)
2005 – El Regreso del Huligan
/ The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir, Barcelona: Tusquets, Voted Best Foreign Book,
Spain
2006
– Lux Mundi, the Cultural Award of Radio România Cultural
2006
– The Anfora Literary Prize (Italy)
2006
– Elected a member of the Berlin
Academy of Art (Germany)
2006
– The Cultural Prize of the Romanian International Television
(Romania)
2006
– Finalist, Femina Prize (France)
2006
– Le Retour du Hooligan / The Hooligan’s
Return, Paris: Le Seuil wins The Prix
Médicis Étranger (France)
2006
– Elected jury member for the International Nonino Prize (Italy)
2007
– Finalist, the Latinity Prize, awarded by the Association of Latin
Countries
2007
– Awarded the Order of Cultural Merit (in rank of Commander) by
the
President of Romania (Romania)
2008
– Honorary Degree in Literature, University of Bucharest (Romania)
2008
– Honorary Degree in Literature, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj
(Romania)
2009
– The Literary Award of the Francine and Antoine Bernheim Prize /Prix Francine et
Antoine Bernheim
pour les Arts, les Lettres et les Sciences
de la Fondation du
Judaïsme français (Paris)
2009
– Finalist for the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias Prize
2009
– The Observator
Cultural Award forOpera Omnia, a lifetime achievement award (Romania)
2009 –
Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCES
The
author appeared as participant and speaker at: The International PEN
Congress (Maastricht, 1989), German PEN Congress (Koln, 1989),
International Conference on "Central Europe at the Crossroads"
(CUNY, New York City 1989), The International Conference on "Eastern
Europe and Nationalism" (Bard College, 1990), The International
Conference on "Redefining Europe (The Atlantic CEO Institute in
Washington, D.C., 1990), The International Conference on
"North-South-East-West" (Milano, 1990), The Wheatland
International Conference on Literature (San Francisco, 1990), The
International Meeting of Intellectuals on "The Twentieth Century
Experience of Liberty" (Mexico City, 1990), The International
Symposium on "The Diaspora of the East after Perestroika"
(Madrid, 1991), The International Conference on "Intellectuals
and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe,” (Rutgers
University & Partisan Review, 1992), The International Conference
on "Eastern Literatures: New Bounds for New Borders"
(Torino, 1992), The International Meeting on "Guardians of
Dissent" (Amsterdam, 1992), The International Conference on
"Translation as Cultural Transmission" (Bard College,
1992), The International PEN Congress (Rio de Janeiro, 1992, Guest
of honor), The Debate
on "The Artist and the State (New School for Social Research,
New York, 1996), participated in the International PEN American Evening: METAMORPHOSIS - A New Kafka (March 26, 1998), The International Conference of Jewish Writers (San
Francisco, 1998), The International Conference on "Culture &
the Market" (The Institute for Humanity, Vienna, 1998), The
International Debate on "The Best Book of the Twentieth Century"
(Aspin Institute, Jerusalem, 1999), The International Debate on
"Passages: Encounters with Jewish Writers" (Rutgers
University), The Jerusalem International Book Fair (2003), The
Prague International Literary Festival, (2004), The Leipzig
International Book Fair (2004), The Torino International Book Fair
(2005), “Cervantes 400” at the New York State Library (2004), The
New York PEN Literary Festival (2005), The Berlin Literary Festival
(2005), The Berlin DAAD Symposium "Europe erzahlt" (2005),
The “Nexus Conference on Democracy,” Amsterdam, 2005, “The
Symposium on populism, Barcelona,” 2007, An Evening with Norman
Manea (Beaubourg, Centre Pompidou, 2008), The Colloquium on Antonio
Tabucchi (Abbaye de Fontevraud, France, 2008), XXI Seminar on Central Europe - 20 years after the Wall (Association of European Journalists, San Sebastian, Spain, July 2009)
LECTURES
DAAD
(West Berlin, 1987), State Library Koln (1988), University of
Strasbourg (1988), Literarisches Colloquium West Berlin (1989), PEN
American Center (1990), State University of New York at Binghamton
(1990), University of Illinois (1990), University of Hardford (1990),
Indiana University (1991), Columbia University (1992), Queens College
(1994), University of Rome (1994), Simon's Rock College (1995),
University of Texas (1995), New York University (1995), Skidmore
College (1996, 2000, 2002), Northwestern University (1996), The
Hebrew University (Jerusalem, 1999), The Jerusalem International Book
Fair (Jerusalem, 1999), The Warsaw International Book Fair (Warsaw,
2001), University of Siena, The Primo Levi Foundation in Genoa
(2004), DAAD Berlin (2005), Cervantes Institute in Madrid (2007),
University of Bucharest (2008), New Europe College, Bucharest (2008),
Babes-Boyai University of Cluj (2008), The Romanian Cultural
Institute, Bucharest (2008), The Group for Social Dialogue, Bucharest
(2008), The Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest (2008), The Museum
of Literature, Bucharest (2008), The Institute for Holocaust Studies,
Bucharest (2008) .
TEACHING
– International
Academy Fellow at Bard College (1989-1992). Courses on “Eastern
European Writers”
and “Holocaust and Literature.”
– Writer
in residence at Bard College (1992-1996). Courses on “Literature on
Extreme Situations:
Holocaust and Gulag” and “Exile and
estrangement in modern fiction.”
– Francis Flournoy Professor
in
European Studies and Culture, writer in residence at Bard College
(1996).
– Courses
on “Danube – a Literary Journey,” “Kafka and His Neighbors,”
“The Writer as Impersonator and Myth:
Fernando Pessoa,”
“Holocaust and Literature,” “Literature on Extreme Situations,”
“Eastern European Writers,”
“Exile and Estrangement in Modern
Fiction,” “Contemporary Masters” (Saul Bellow, Philip Roth,
Jose Saramago,
Aleksandar Tisma, Cynthia Ozick, Antonio Tabucchi,
Edna O'Brien, Claudio Magris, Orhan Pamuk,
Mario Vargas Llosa, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Ismail Kadare).
About
the Author
1990 Neues Literatur Lexicon / The New Literary Lexicon.
Kindler Verlag, Munich, Germany.
1991 Literary Exile in the
Twentieth Century: An Analysis and Biographical Dictionary.
Ed. Martin Tucker. West Port, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
1995 Contemporary Authors.
Online data base: Gale Group Research, available at www.acquirecontent.com
1995-2006 Who’s Who in America.
Marquis Who's Who. New Providence, New Jersey.
1995 World’s
Authors. The H.W.
Wilson Company, Bronx, New York, and online at www.hwwilson.com
2000 Dictionarul
Esenţial al Scriitorilor Români (The Essential Dictionary of
Romanian Writers).
Bucharest:
Albatros.
2001 Dicţionar
Analitic de Opere Literare Româneşti / An Analytical Dictionary of
Romanian Literary Works.
Cluj: Casa Cărţii.
2001 Dicţionarul
Scriitorilor Români / The Dictionary of Romanian Writers. Bucharest:
Albatros.
2001 Dictionary
of Literary Biography,
Twentieth Century Eastern European Writers.
New York City: Hunter
College of CUNY.
2001 Slovník Rumunských
Spisovatelů / Dictionary of Romanian Writers.
Prague: Nakldatelství Libri.
2003 Enciclopedia Exilului Literar Românesc / Encyclopaedia of the
Romanian Literary Exile.
Bucharest: Compania.
2004 Dicţionar Cronologic
al Romanului Românesc / Chronological Dictionary of the Romanian
Novel.
Bucharest:
Romanian Academy.
2005 Dicţionarul de
literatură al Academiei Române / Literature Dictionary of the
Romanian Academy.
2008 Enciclopedia della Letteratura. Milano: Garzanti.
Over
the past two decades Norman Manea has been proposed as a candidate
for the Nobel Prize of Literature by literary personalities,
academics and academic institutions, in the United States, Sweden,
Romania, Italy and France.
