Norman Manea

Born in 1936, in Bukovina, Romania, Norman Manea, the author of On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist, was deported at the age of five to the Ukranian internment camp of Transnistria. His fiction, which is preoccupied with the trauma of the Holocaust and with daily life in a totalitarian state, has been translated into more than ten languages. He is now a professor of literature at Bard College.