Norman Manea
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Norman Manea was born in Bukovina in 1936. In 1941, he and his family were deported to a concentration camp in Ukraine; he survived the imprisonment. From 1974, he worked as an independent writer in Bucharest and later became a professor of European cultural studies at Bard College. His works published in German include The Black Envelope, On Clowns, The Hooligan’s Return, October, Eight O’Clock, The Cave, We Are All in Exile, and The Shadow in Exile. In 2011, Manea received the Nelly Sachs Prize of the City of Dortmund, followed by the FIL Prize in 2016.