{"id":12001,"global_id":"camruss.com\/en?id=12001","global_id_lineage":["camruss.com\/en?id=12001"],"author":"14","status":"publish","date":"2024-12-01 22:23:01","date_utc":"2024-12-01 22:23:01","modified":"2025-02-11 19:54:36","modified_utc":"2025-02-11 19:54:36","url":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/events\/a-magic-mirror-an-evening-of-poetry-with-julia-nemirovskaya\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/12001","title":"A Magic Mirror. An Evening of Poetry with Julia Nemirovskaya","description":"

An inspiring evening with renowned US-based poet, writer and literary scholar\u00a0Julia Nemirovskaya, featuring readings, and discussions on Moscow\u2019s New Wave poets, as well as reflections on the creative process, and an audience Q&A.<\/span><\/p>\n

Julia teaches and directs student theater at the University of Oregon (UO), and will be visiting Cambridge from the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Boris Dralyuk<\/a>, a distinguished writer, editor, and translator, has offered profound insights into Julia Nemirovskaya’s poetry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment I first encountered the poems of Julia Nemirovskaya, I felt I had acquired a magical mirror \u2013 a mirror that promised to reveal, with striking clarity, traits of my own personality that I had barely glimpsed before. I saw a version of myself in her lyrics and heard a version of my voice; but the self was brighter and better, the voice gentler yet surer than the one I was used to. After a decade of living with Julia\u2019s poems, I have come to appreciate the degree to which the process of translating them has helped me become that better self and find that surer voice… I hope my translations will do the same for other readers.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> Friday 21 February 2025 19:00-21:00 (doors at 18:30)
\nWhere:\u00a0<\/strong>Main Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TJ
\nLanguage:<\/strong>\u00a0English with some poetry read in original Russian
\nFormat:<\/strong> in person and online via Zoom
\nTickets in person:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a38 standard \/ \u00a35 CamRuSS members & concessions;
\nZoom:<\/strong> \u00a35 standard, free for CamRuSS members & students.
\nAccess to video recording:<\/strong> free for CamRuSS members, \u00a35 for others, incl. students.
\nPlease book via AllEvents<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis event will be followed by drinks reception.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Julia Nemirovskaya<\/p><\/div>\n

Julia Nemirovskaya<\/a> is a poet, prose writer, and literary scholar. She graduated from Moscow State University, where she defended her Ph.D. dissertation in 1991. Before emigrating to the United States that same year, she was a member of the renowned Kirill Kovaldzhi “New Wave Poets” seminar and the Moscow Poetry Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has published four collections of poetry and short stories, a novel, and a book on Russian cultural history, <\/span>Inside the Russian Soul: A Historical Survey of Russian Cultural Patterns<\/span><\/i> (McGraw-Hill, 1997, 2001). Her work has appeared in <\/span>Asymptote<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>GLAS<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Literary Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Znamya<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>LRS-Lettres Russes<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Bonniers Litter\u00e4ra Magasin<\/span><\/i>, and other publications. Her writings have been translated into several European languages. Additionally, her 26 plays have been staged in theatres across Russia, the United States, Germany, and France.<\/span><\/p>\n

A mother of three, she resides in the United States, frequently travels to her youngest child’s native Ethiopia, and teaches Russian literature while directing student theatre productions at the University of Oregon.<\/span><\/p>\n

A selection of recordings, publications, articles, and interviews featuring Julia Nemirovskaya:<\/strong><\/p>\n