Awards & Winners

Norman Manea

Date of Birth 19-July-1936
Place of Birth Suceava
(Romania, Suceava County)
Nationality Romania, United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist
Norman Manea is a Jewish Romanian writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He lives in the United States, where he is the Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College. He left Romania in 1986 with a DAAD-Berlin Grant and in 1988 went to the US with a Fulbright Scholarship at the Catholic University in Washington DC. Manea's most acclaimed book, The Hooligan’s Return, is an original novelistic memoir, encompassing a period of almost 80 years, from the pre-war period, through the Second World War, the communist and post-communist years to the present. Manea has been known and praised as an international important writer since early 1990s, and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has received more than 20 awards and honors.

Awards by Norman Manea

Check all the awards nominated and won by Norman Manea.

2006


Prix Médicis étranger
Honored for : Return of the Hooligan

1993


National Jewish Book Award for Autobiography/Memoir
Honored for : On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist