Norman Manea

Norman Manea (2008)

Norman Manea (born July 19, 1936 in Burdujeni , Suceava ) is a Romanian writer who lives in the United States.

Life

In 1941 Manea was deported as a Jew to a Romanian concentration camp in Transnistria , which he survived with his entire family.

Manea worked as a hydraulic engineer. He made his debut at the age of 30 in an avant-garde magazine. In 1974 he settled in Bucharest as a freelance writer. He described life in a totalitarian regime without criticizing the communist regime directly. In his story The Trenchcoat , he lets the reader feel the oppressive atmosphere of the Ceaușescu dictatorship and describes how the suspicion of being spied on by the other poisons relationships with one another.

In 1986 he left Romania for political reasons. After a year in West Berlin , he moved to the USA . His essay Felix Culpa. Mircea Eliade's memory and silence about anti-Semitic thinking Mircea Eliade and its proximity to fascism sparked a smear campaign against him in post-communist Romania in 1991. In 1997 and 2008 he visited Romania. The 1991 murder of the Romanian exiled Ioan Petru Culianu from the University of Chicago, who had proven Mircea Eliade to have a fascist orientation, is treated indirectly by Manea in his novel Die Höhle (German: 2012).

Manea lives in New York City and is Professor of European Studies and Culture at Bard College . He publishes regularly in the magazine Sinn und Form . His works have been translated into a total of twenty languages.

Honors

• In 1992 Manea was a MacArthur Fellow .
• In 2006 Manea was elected a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin .
• In 2011 Manea was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize .
• In 2016 Manea was awarded the highest order in the country, the Star of Romania .
• Also in 2016, Manea became the first Romanian writer to receive the highly endowed Mexican FIL Prize .

Fonts

• Robot biography and other narratives . Steidl, Göttingen 1987.
• Window to the working class . Steidl, Göttingen 1989.
• Training for paradise . Steidl, Göttingen 1990.
• The trench coat . Steidl, Göttingen 1990.
• Partition . Stories. Steidl, Göttingen 1992.
• The censor's report. In: Sinn und Form 1/1996, pp. 109–123 [autobiographical report on the Securitate's censorship activities].
• The black envelope . Hanser, Munich 1998.
• Aftermath of truth. Notes on the Holocaust Debate . In: Sinn und Form 2/1999, pp. 268–274.
• About clowns. Essays . Hanser, Munich 2002.
• Notes on the exiled language . In: Sinn und Form 2/2003, pp. 181-200.
• The return of the hooligan. Self portrait . Hanser 2004. New edition: Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-8333-0294-1 .
• October, eight o'clock. Stories. Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20921-3 .
• Fifty years of the Nouvelle Revue Française in Bucharest. The Cioran - Noica debate. In: Sinn und Form 3/2010, pp. 326-330.
• Meeting with Cioran . In: Sinn und Form 6/2010, pp. 725–738.
• Conversations in exile (with Hannes Stein). Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-608-0 .
• The cave. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23985-2 .
• We are all in exile. Essays. Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24953-0 .

literature

• Mara Delius: Those who are modern are lonely . Review, in: The Literary World , November 14, 2015, p. 7.
• Olivier Guez: Oh dear! No joke . Interview. Translation by Michael Ebmeyer. In: Friday , July 28, 2016, p. 25.

Web links

Commons : Norman Manea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Norman Manea in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry Norman Manea in the Bard College directory
• Biography of the International Literature Festival Berlin about Norman Manea

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans-Peter Kunisch : One trench coat too much. The Romanian writer Norman Manea turns 80. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 19, 2016, p. 12.
2. ↑ Norman Manea receives FIL Literature Prize - Romanian author honored , boersenblatt.net, August 30, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2016