Betsy/FIU Exile Writer in Residence will present his latest book and discuss patronage and the exiled writer. Norman Manea is a Jewish Romanian author and Holocaust survivor, living in New York City. His writing comprises novels, essays, short prose and his topic is, mainly, the individual destiny in extreme situations (holocaust, communist dictatorship, exile).
In 2014, the Romanian Writers Union proposed his name as a Nobel candidate, as did – in previous years – the Romanian and Swedish PEN and several scholars in Romanian literature. Manea is the Francis Flournoy Professor in European Studies and Culture and the FIU/Betsy Exile Studies Writer/Scholar in Residence, visiting from Bard College.
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