NORMAN MANEA AT 90: Between Dictatorship and Exile

To celebrate the 90th birthday of Norman Manea, one of Romania’s most internationally acclaimed contemporary writers and a defining voice in the literature of exile, the National Museum of Romanian Literature and the Romanian Cultural Institute, in partnership with the “Carol I” Central University Library, the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, and the Writers’ Union of Romania, presents Norman Manea at 90, a two-day anniversary program of literary conversations, international tributes, academic discussions, and an archival exhibition exploring the writer’s extraordinary life, literary achievements, and enduring international influence. Organized with the support of Observator cultural and Polirom Publishing House, the program brings together distinguished writers, literary critics, scholars, intellectuals, diplomats, and cultural figures from Romania, France, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Israel, and the Republic of Moldova.

Born in Romania in 1936, Norman Manea survived deportation to Transnistria during the Holocaust as a child and later experienced…