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Writer Norman Manea, celebrated by Romanian Cultural Institute, National Museum of Romanian Literature at 86
Writer Norman Manea, a survivor of the Holocaust, one of the great consciences of the contemporary world, is celebrated on Tuesday, at the age of 86, by the network of representatives of the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) and the National Museum of Romanian Literature (MNLR), a release sent by the ICR reads.
The moment will be marked during the entire day on the ICR's social media platforms, and also on the platforms of the ICR's foreign representations, of the MNLR, of the Romanian Embassy in Washington and on the social media platforms of other partners. Thus, an anniversary film conceived and made by Alex Boda and Johnny Vacar within a joint project of ICR New York and MNLR will be broadcast, which includes wishes and evocations from 30 cultural personalities and close persons from Romania and around the world, "which reconstitutes a subjective, personal portrait of one of the most famous Romanian writers at international level".
Important writers and intellectuals, some life long friends of the writer, such as Gabriela Adamesteanu, Chloe Aridjis, Homero Aridjis, Paul Bailey, Merrie Blocker, Leon Botstein, Robert and Peg Boyers, Nicolas Cavailles, Magda Carneci, Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, Caius Dobrescu, Luca Formenton, Angela Furtuna, Olivier Guez, Elianna Kan, Ion Bogdan Lefter, Lea Wakeman, Alberto Manguel, Mercedes Monmany de la Torre, Carmen Musat, Doru Pop, Michael Shafir, Claudiu Turcus, Matei Visniec, Ernest Wichner wish the writer "Happy Birthday!". They are joined by the Ambassador of Romania to the United States, Andrei Muraru, the President of the Romanian Cultural Institute, Liviu Jicman, and Dorian Branea, the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and, last but not least, Cella Manea, the writer's wife.
Born on July 19, 1936, Norman Manea is one of the most appreciated Romanian prose writers and essayists, professor of European literature and "writer in residence" at Bard College, New York. From his debut in 1966 until 1986, when he left the country, he published 10 volumes, being awarded the Prize of the Writers' Association of Bucharest (1979) and the Prize of the Writers' Union (1984, canceled by the Council of Culture and Socialist Education).
After 1986, Norman Manea was translated into over 30 languages, his books receiving eulogies. The volumes published in the USA appeared in the selection of the most important editorial appearances in The New York Times. In 1992, he received the Guggenheim Scholarship and the MacArthur Prize, and in 1993 the New York National Library celebrated him on the occasion of Norman Manea being awarded the "Literary Lion" distinction. In 2002, he was awarded the International Prize of Nonino Literature for "Opera omnia", and in 2006 he won the Medicis Etranger Prize for the volume "The Return of the Hooligan". In 2010, he received the "Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" from the French Government, and in 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Nelly Sachs Literary Prize and was elected an honorary member of the Royal Society of Literature.
In 2012, the Writers' Union of Romania awarded him the National Prize for Literature. In 2013, the Writers' Union also nominated him for the Nobel Prize, and in 2014 the Romanian PEN and several foreign publishing houses reiterated the proposal. In 2016, he received the Grand Prize for Literature in Romance Languages at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico. In the same year, he was decorated by the President of Romania with the National Order "Star of Romania" in the rank of Grand Officer.
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