Norman Manea

Norman Manea was born in 1936 in Bukovina, Romania. At the age of five, he was taken to a Ukrainian concentration camp. After studying engineering, he began his literary career at an avant-garde magazine that was soon banned. Since 1986, he has been living in the United States, where he teaches Eastern European literature at Bard College in New York. His writings, which focus on the Holocaust and daily life under a totalitarian regime, have been translated into more than ten languages.