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The New School for Social Research invites you to attend this year’s William Phillips Lecture, at which Norman Manea presents a paper titled “20 Years After the Berlin Wall.” Norman Manea left Romania as the result of communist persecution and lived briefly in West Berlin before arriving in the United States in 1988. He has a master’s degree in hydro-technological engineering from the Construction Institute in Bucharest and has been writing full-time since 1974. His fiction, essays, and anthologies have been translated into 20 languages and have appeared in periodicals and collections around the world. Manea has been proposed as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature by literary and academic figures and institutions in the United States, Sweden, Romania, Italy, and France. He is the Francis Flournoy Professor in European Studies and Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. William Phillips was the editor of Partisan Review for more than 60 years. During his tenure, Phillips discovered some of the foremost writers of his time. His unshackled mind and courage kept him at the forefront of the literary world until his death in September 2002.
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