Cynthia L. Haven is an American literary scholar, author, critic, Slavicist, and journalist. Her books include Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, which the San Francisco Chronicle named one of the top books of 2018, and Czesław Miłosz: A California Life.[1] She is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna[1] and a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages while researching her book on French theorist René Girard. She was a Voegelin fellow at the Hoover Institution while working on her book on Nobel poet Joseph Brodsky and his translator, George L. Kline. She blogs at The Book Haven. She has written for a wide range of publications, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times Book Review.[2][1]
She studied with Joseph Brodsky and has won many literary and journalistic awards, including two Hopwood Awards and a Broomfield Essay Prize while at the University of Michigan.[3]
She is currently[when?] completing a Penguin Modern Classics anthology for the selected writings of René Girard, to be published in 2023, and a short German anthology to be published in 2022 with the Leipzig publisher Reclam, for its popular "Was bedeutet das alles?" series.
Books[edit]
- Czesław Miłosz: A California Life (Berkeley: Heyday, 2021).
- The Man Who Brought Brodsky Into English: Conversations with George L. Kline (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021).
- Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).
- Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018).
- An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz (Athens, Ohio: Swallow/Ohio University Press, 2011).
- Czesław Miłosz: Conversations, (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, Literary Conversations Series, 2006).
- Three Poets in Conversation (London: Waywiser, 2006).
- Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven London: Waywiser, 2005).
- Joseph Brodsky: Conversations (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, Literary Conversations Series, 2003).
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Cynthia L. Haven". Heyday. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
- ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
- ^ "Cynthia Haven – The Waywiser Press". waywiser-press.com. Retrieved 2022-04-17.