At the invitation of the
Center for Writers & Translators and the
Masters in Cultural Translation, Cynthia Haven
will speak about her experiences in print and
online media, and on making the transition
from being a ‘critic/ reviewer’ to actually
creating books that foster international
culture.
Cynthia Haven is a literary and cultural journalist who has written for The
Times Literary Supplement, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington
Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, World Literature Today, The
Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, and other publications. Her An
Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz was published in 2011 by Ohio
University Press/Swallow Press, Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations in 2006,
and Joseph Brodsky: Conversations in 2003. Peter Dale in Conversation
with Cynthia Haven was published in London, 2005. She was a 2008 Milena
Jesenská Fellow in Kraków with Vienna's Institut für die Wissenschaften vom
Menschen. She is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University, working
on a biography of René Girard. She blogs at
The Book Haven.
