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American literary scholar, critic, slavicist, and journalist (born 1963)
Cynthia L. Haven is an American
literary scholar , author, critic,
Slavicist , and journalist.
Education
While at the University of Michigan,
[1] she studied with
Joseph Brodsky and won literary and journalism awards, including two
Hopwood Awards and a Broomfield Essay Prize.[
citation needed ]
Publications
Her books include Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard , which the
San Francisco Chronicle named one of the best books of 2018. The biography was also named a 2019 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title. Her Czesław Miłosz: A California Life was a
finalist for a Northern California Book Award . She is a
National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar.
Her Penguin Modern Classics anthology for the selected writings of René Girard was published in June 2023, and a short German anthology was published in 2022 with the Leipzig publisher Reclam, for its popular "Was bedeutet das alles?" series.
Recognition
She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna
[2] 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 .
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Books
All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2023; New York: Penguin Modern Classics, 2024).
Warum kämpfen wir? Und wie hören wir auf? (Leipzig: Reclam, 2022).
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).
Everything Came to Me at Once: The Intellectual Vision of René Girard (Belmont, NC: Wiseblood, 2017).
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
Interviews
"Cynthia Haven: From Envy to Forgiveness" , Meditations with Zohar, Apple Podcasts, February 14, 2023.
"Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky," Conversations with Tyler Cowen, Aug. 24, 2022
"Czesław Miłosz: A California Life," Robert Pogue Harrison's "Entitled Opinions," July 25, 2022.
"Czesław Miłosz: A California Life — A Conversation with Cynthia L. Haven," The Athenaeum Review, Episode 45, 2019.
"Cynthia Haven: Interview with Scott Beauchamp , "Full Stop: Reviews, Interviews, Marginalia," May 15, 2019.
"René Girard and the Mysterious Nature of Desire" , Johns Hopkins University The Hub, August 8, 2018.
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