Tag The Lair

August 16, 2012
in Literature, Margellos Series

An Interview with Norman Manea and Oana Sânziana Marian, Translator of The Lair

August 16, 2012
in Literature, Margellos Series

Every good translator (and appreciator of international literature) knows that a work in translation carries more than the weight of a language’s technical nuances and abnormalities. Like an immigrant to a new nation, it grapples in a no man’s land between the culture in which it was born and the

June 21, 2012
in European History, Literature, Margellos Series

Into the Lair: Exploring Émigré Life with Norman Manea

June 21, 2012
in European History, Literature, Margellos Series

It would be no exaggeration to say that Romanian novelist Norman Manea is one of the most celebrated contemporary Eastern European writers in the Western literary world. His impressive collection of cultural and literary awards currently includes the MacArthur Fellowship (U.S.), the Nonino International Literary Prize (Italy), the Prix Médicis