The author, whose best known work is Return of the Hooligan , is a skilled portraitist of the history of his country in the twentieth century
the Romanian writer Norman Manea won the Award of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in Romance Languages 2016. the jury highlighted the relevance in today’s society takes one of the issues most worked by the author, the “itinerant identity” .
“Against the catastrophes of history and exiles to which we are subject, Manea question with wit and irony how we define ourselves in a world of shifting mirrors,” he said at a news conference spokeswoman jury.
In the 26th. edition instituted in 1991 prize, Manea, who takes the witness of Spanish Enrique Vila-Matas, becomes the first writer in Romanian gaining recognition.
Born in Suceava (Bucovina, Romania) 1936, Manea is the author of a work set around the figure of the “wandering Jew” who develops his pilgrimages taking backdrop of old Europe and the New World.
conference call from Berlin EFE, Manea agency said today this figure of literature has become universal, becoming a “Jewish world”, a citizen moves in the “global exile”.
the world “has lost its center, and what you are trying to find each person is peace, hope, enjoyment” in a situation of suffering but marked “by the tenacity and resilience,” he reflected the author.
Far from framed in traditional literary genres, the writer, who lives in New York, playing great songs like “lessons memory, absurd violence of the last century and its impact on the present,” said the spokesman . the dictator and artist (1997): jury
Among the creations of the Romanian author titles like the on black (1986), Clowns are the fifth impossibility (2012) or the return of hooligan (2003). the work tea Proust (2010), which combines his stories
also stands. The award, with prize money of $ 150,000, will be presented on November 26 in the opening of the XXX edition of the FIL Guadalajara, the most important in the world in Spanish literary festival and this year will Latin America as guest of honor.
the event this year received 54 nominations from 23 countries. The jury was composed by Alberto Manguel and Ottmar Ette, representatives of the Spanish language; João Cezar de Castro Rocha and Jerónimo Pizarro, representatives of the Portuguese language; Mercedes Monmany in Romanian language; Louis Chevaillier, in Italian, and Philippe Daros, in French.
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