Norman Manea Celebration

Writer Retrospective Co-sponsored by the 2016 Romanian Chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the Romanian Cultural Institute, and the Consulate General of Romania in New York Admission: Free Watch the video

With the occasion of his 80th Anniversary, YIVO organizes a festive celebration of Norman Manea, holocaust survivor and one of the most important contemporary Jewish-Romanian-American writers. Norman Manea’s work has been translated and acclaimed in more than 25 languages and received important international prizes. Speakers Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, Robert Boyers, editor of Salmagundi, Edward Hirsch, poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Michael Shafir, professor at Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania, will discuss Norman Manea, his work, and his influence. The event will conclude with a dialogue between Norman Manea and Jonathan Brent, Executive Director of YIVO, on "Jewishness and Literature."  Drinks will be served.