WRITER

Norman Manea

1936 - Today

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Norman Manea (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈnorman ˈmane̯a]; born 19 July 1936) is a Romanian writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He lives in the United States, where he is a Professor and writer in residence at Bard College. He left Romania in 1986 with a DAAD-Berlin Grant and in 1988 went to the US with a Fulbright Scholarship at the Catholic University in Washington DC. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Manea has received more than 81,074 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Norman Manea is the 4,064th most popular writer (down from 3,734th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 81k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fericirea obligatorie
1989
On clowns
Authorship, Censorship, Literature and society
1992
The hooligan's return
Biography, Childhood and youth, Concentration camps
2002
Bonheur obligatoire
Translations into English
1993
Întoarcerea huliganului
2003
Plicul negru
Fiction, Romanian fiction
1986

Page views of Norman Maneas by language

Over the past year Norman Manea has had the most page views in the with 10,630 views, followed by Romanian (5,026), and German (2,042). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (71.86%), Latin (48.63%), and German (29.16%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Norman Manea ranks 4,064 out of 7,302. Before her are André Schwarz-Bart, Wipo of Burgundy, Aisha Taymur, Daniel Silva, Alexandru Macedonski, and Maria Edgeworth. After her are Bozorg Alavi, Marco Foscarini, Hushang Ebtehaj, Oskar Maria Graf, Claude Aveline, and Ivo Brešan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Norman Manea ranks 304. Before her are Igor Rodionov, Héctor Núñez, Eva Hesse, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Robert Langlands, and Zdeněk Mácal. After her are Ivo Brešan, Henri Richard, Oreste Corbatta, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, Jan Němec, and Susana Duijm.

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