Norman Manea, Romanian Writers, and Censorship

The Hannah Arendt Center is co-sponsoring an interesting event this Friday afternoon, March 23,  in conjunction with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York and the Written Arts Program at Bard College.  Bard Professor, Norman Manea, will be holding a conversation with fellow Romanian writers about the challenge of writing under the oppression of censorship. Present will be Romanian writers Carmen Firan, Dan Lungu, Simona Popescu, Bogdan Suceav?, and Lucian Dan Teodorovici. The event comes on the heels of the publication of Romanian Writers on Writing, a new anthology offering a panoramic and unique glimpse into Romanian literature for English language readers, edited by  Manea.

You can learn more about the event here.

Manea, who was born in Romania,  spent  four years as a child in a concentration camp. He is a prolific writer, with his work translated into more than twenty languages. Just recently, his novelistic memoir, The Hooligan's Return was released in Sweden to rave reviews, with several reviewers deeming it worthy of the Nobel Prize.

Manea is is the Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College.