by Ronald Meyer | Feb 26, 2025 | Awards, ECEC, News, Read
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu (Harriman Writer in Residence Fall ’24), translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter (Deep Vellum), has been nominated for the International Booker Prize. The prize, which is awarded annually, celebrates the best works of long-form...
by Ronald Meyer | Feb 19, 2025 | Balkans, ECEC, News, Read
Bojana Jokić, President of the Board of Directors of LGBT Forum Progress (Montenegro), is the current Harriman-sponsored Human Rights Advocate (2024-25) at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. Jokić has been the President of the Board of...
by Ronald Meyer | Feb 4, 2025 | News, Read, Russia, Writers in Residence
In April 2024, Mikhail Shishkin (Harriman Writer in Residence ’13) joined forces with leading Slavists in Switzerland to create the Dar (Gift) Literary Prize. Since that time leading scholars and authors from Europe and the U.S. have joined the Dar Foundation....
by Ronald Meyer | Jan 27, 2025 | Faculty, News, Read, Russia
Ronald Meyer’s translation of Dostoevsky’s “White Nights (1848),” as reprinted in Penguin UK’s Little Black Classics (2016), has become a social media sensation. According to a story in the Guardian (Dec. 17, 2024). “White...
by Ronald Meyer | Jan 21, 2025 | Faculty, News, Read, Russia, War in Ukraine
In his essay “Do Russians Really Support the War in Ukraine?” Keith Gessen writes about the challenges researchers face when gauging Russians’s support for the war in Ukraine (The New Yorker, Jan. 10, 2025).”Since the beginning of the war,...
