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Norman Manea

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1936, Burdujeni (Suceava), Romania

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Romania · United States

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Manea is a Romanian-born author widely regarded as one of the foremost writers of the Romanian diaspora, whose fiction and essays, including 'The Hooligan's Return', grapple with totalitarianism, exile and memory. A Jew deported as a child to a Transnistria concentration camp during the Holocaust, he later left Ceaușescu's Romania and settled in the United States. His work bears witness to the century's catastrophes.

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