Norman Manea (born July 19, 1936) is a Romanian writer and intellectual. Born in Burdujeni, currently a neighborhood of Suceava. Because he was Jewish in the time of Fascist-controlled Romania ("see: Romania during World War II"), Manea was deported in 1941 (at the age of 5) together with the rest of his family to a concentration camp in Transnistria, but survived, along with his whole family. He was educated at the Institute of Civil Engineering, in Bucharest. Wikipedia
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