Cartea fiului (Book of the Son) (novel); 2011 – second edition, Polirom 1979 Anii de ucenicie ai lui August Prostul (The Apprenticeship Years of Augustus the Fool) (documentary novel); 2012 – second edition, Polirom 1981 Octombrie, ora opt (October, eight o'clock) (short fiction); 1997 – second edition, Apostrof 1984 Pe contur (On the Edge) (essays) 1986 Plicul negru (The Black Envelope) (novel); 1996 – second edition, Editura Cartea Românească; 2003, 2006 – Polirom 1997 Despre clovni: Dictatorul și artistul (On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist) (essays); 2005, 2006, 2013 – Polirom 1999 Fericirea obligatorie (Compulsory Happiness) (novellas), Apostrof; 2005, 2011 – Polirom 1999 Casa melcului (The Snail’s House) (interviews), Hasefer 2003 Intoarcerea huliganului (The Hooligan’s Return) (novelistic memoir), Polirom; 2006, 2011 – Polirom 2004 Plicuri și portrete (Envelopes and Portraits) (essays), Polirom 2006 Textul nomad (The Nomad Text) (interviews), Hasefer 2008 Vorbind pietrei (Talking to a Stone), Polirom 2008 Înaintea despărțirii (Before Parting) (conversation with Saul Bellow), Polirom 2009 Vizuina (The Lair) (novel), Polirom; 2010 – Polirom 2010 Laptele negru (The black milk) (essays and interviews), Hasefer 2010 Curierul de Est. Dialog cu Edward Kanterian, Polirom 2011 Cuvinte din exil. Dialog cu Hanes Stein'', Polirom References External links Contemporary Romanian Writers Manea's editorial commentaries for Project Syndicate 1936 births Living people Bard College faculty Jewish American writers MacArthur Fellows Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Catholic University of America alumni People from Suceava Survivors of World War II deportations to Transnistria American people of Romanian-Jewish descent Romanian emigrants to the United States Jewish Romanian writers Romanian writers Romanian essayists Romanian memoirists Romanian novelists Romanian male novelists Romanian male short story writers Romanian short story writers Prix Médicis étranger winners Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 21st-century American Jews