Women Writers Route
The Project of new cultural route of the Council of Europe
About the project
The Project of new cultural route of the Council of Europe is dedicated to the European women writers of the early 20th century
The Project of new cultural route of the Council of Europe is dedicated to the European women writers of the early 20th century.
The project aims not only to shed light on little-known facts of the women writers` lives of the early twentieth century, but also to present their worldview that has formed and still continues to shape the surrounding reality through the promotion of basic concepts such as peace, love, creativity, self-development and empathy.
The Russian part of the route will link together the sites dedicated to three outstanding Russian poets of the Silver age - Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and Zinaida Gippius (the list is to be expanded), who were close to such modern ideas as the need for equal rights and opportunities and sustainable, harmonious development – the values that unite not only the Slavic countries, but also the whole Europe.
The cultural route is aimed at individual travelers and organized tourist groups, as well as professional communities, domestic and foreign researchers. There will be a database of scientific materials created in order to coordinate research activities. Thanks to the creation of such a community, which unites museum workers, researchers and literature lovers, it will be possible to include these museums and other memorable sites in the international agenda and promote them under the program of new cultural route of the Council of Europe.
The project aims not only to shed light on little-known facts of the women writers` lives of the early twentieth century, but also to present their worldview that has formed and still continues to shape the surrounding reality through the promotion of basic concepts such as peace, love, creativity, self-development and empathy.
The Russian part of the route will link together the sites dedicated to three outstanding Russian poets of the Silver age - Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and Zinaida Gippius (the list is to be expanded), who were close to such modern ideas as the need for equal rights and opportunities and sustainable, harmonious development – the values that unite not only the Slavic countries, but also the whole Europe.
The cultural route is aimed at individual travelers and organized tourist groups, as well as professional communities, domestic and foreign researchers. There will be a database of scientific materials created in order to coordinate research activities. Thanks to the creation of such a community, which unites museum workers, researchers and literature lovers, it will be possible to include these museums and other memorable sites in the international agenda and promote them under the program of new cultural route of the Council of Europe.
Thanks to the creation of such a community, which unites museum workers, researchers and literature lovers, it will be possible to include these museums and other memorable sites in the international agenda and promote them under the program of new cultural route of the Council of Europe.
Announcements
Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature with the The
Institute for Literary Translation invites everyone to take part in the International
translation contest "Writers of the Silver Age about war", dedicated to the 75th
anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The contest is aimed to support young and talented translators in promoting the
Russian language and literature in Europe.
If you are under the age of 40, have a good command of one of the languages listed
below and want to prove yourself in the field of poetic translation (or already have
relevant experience), then fill in the application for participation (the form is
offered below) and e-mail it along with your contest entry to the address of the
organizing committee (isslgrant@libfl.ru).
Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zinaida Gippius reflecting on
wartime's experience are offered for translation. Participants are free to make a
choice themselves.
Requirements for entries:
1. The translation is made by an applicant individually;
2. The translation has never been published before;
3. The total volume of translated texts does not exceed 150 poetic lines;
4. The translation is provided in one of the languages listed:
English
Belorussian
Bulgarian
Italian
Spanish
Macedonian
German
Serbian
Slovenian
Ukrainian
Croatian
Czech
Requirements for formalisation:
1. the translation is accepted in electronic form (in RTF format);
2. Times New Roman font, 12 pt size, 1.5 line spacing
Applications for participation and completed translations are accepted only in
electronic form until November 10, 2020 inclusive at the following e-mail:
isslgrant@libfl.ru with an indication in the subject line: "Translation contest.
Language. Last name of the participant" (for example, "Translation Contest.
Polish. Fokin").
The contest is supported by Forum of Slavic Cultures (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the
foreign mission of Rossotrudnichestvo (International Humanitarian Cooperation)
in Croatia and the faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade (Belgrade,
Serbia).
Institute for Literary Translation invites everyone to take part in the International
translation contest "Writers of the Silver Age about war", dedicated to the 75th
anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The contest is aimed to support young and talented translators in promoting the
Russian language and literature in Europe.
If you are under the age of 40, have a good command of one of the languages listed
below and want to prove yourself in the field of poetic translation (or already have
relevant experience), then fill in the application for participation (the form is
offered below) and e-mail it along with your contest entry to the address of the
organizing committee (isslgrant@libfl.ru).
Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zinaida Gippius reflecting on
wartime's experience are offered for translation. Participants are free to make a
choice themselves.
Requirements for entries:
1. The translation is made by an applicant individually;
2. The translation has never been published before;
3. The total volume of translated texts does not exceed 150 poetic lines;
4. The translation is provided in one of the languages listed:
English
Belorussian
Bulgarian
Italian
Spanish
Macedonian
German
Serbian
Slovenian
Ukrainian
Croatian
Czech
Requirements for formalisation:
1. the translation is accepted in electronic form (in RTF format);
2. Times New Roman font, 12 pt size, 1.5 line spacing
Applications for participation and completed translations are accepted only in
electronic form until November 10, 2020 inclusive at the following e-mail:
isslgrant@libfl.ru with an indication in the subject line: "Translation contest.
Language. Last name of the participant" (for example, "Translation Contest.
Polish. Fokin").
The contest is supported by Forum of Slavic Cultures (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the
foreign mission of Rossotrudnichestvo (International Humanitarian Cooperation)
in Croatia and the faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade (Belgrade,
Serbia).
We also invite you to take part in the online round table The Route of European Women Writers of the Early Twentieth Century, which will be held on September 16-17, 2020 as a continuation of the international project Women writers route. The project is aimed at creating a new cultural route of the Council of Europe.
The round table, as well as the project as a whole, aims to shed light on little-known facts of the women writers` of the early twentieth century (the Silver Age of Russian poetry) lives and to present their worldview that has formed and still continues to shape the surrounding reality through the promotion of basic concepts such as peace, love, creativity, self-development and also through their proximity (or, probably, the other way around) to such modern ideas as the need for equal rights and opportunities, sustainable and harmonious development – the values that unite not only the Slavic countries, but also the whole Europe.
We welcome the reports devoted to women writers who set the tone of the literary life of European countries at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as reports on issues of preservation and popularization of their heritage at the national and international level. We also ask you to place a special emphasis on life and creative path of the central figures of the Women writers route project:
Maria Konopnicka (Poland);
Anna Akhmatova, Zinaida Gippius , Marina Tsvetaeva (Russia);
Desanka Maksimović, Isidora Sekulić , Jelena Dimitrijević (Serbia);
Božena Slančíková – Timrava , Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, Hana Gregorová (Slovakia);
Zofka Kveder, Lili Novy (Slovenia);
Ivana Brlić Mažuranić , Marija Jurić Zagorka (Croatia);
Divna Veković (Montenegro).
The round table will be held in an online format; The round table is also planned
to be covered by a live webcast on Culture.RF (Культура РФ) portal; The round
table materials will also be published.
We ask you to send the topic and a brief summary of your report (up to
1000 characters) ,as well as the information about the scope of your research
activities and contact details to the following email address: isslgrant@libfl.ru
(Department of Research Projects and Grant Monitoring of the Library of Foreign
Literature) until June 30, 2020.
Detailed information
The round table, as well as the project as a whole, aims to shed light on little-known facts of the women writers` of the early twentieth century (the Silver Age of Russian poetry) lives and to present their worldview that has formed and still continues to shape the surrounding reality through the promotion of basic concepts such as peace, love, creativity, self-development and also through their proximity (or, probably, the other way around) to such modern ideas as the need for equal rights and opportunities, sustainable and harmonious development – the values that unite not only the Slavic countries, but also the whole Europe.
We welcome the reports devoted to women writers who set the tone of the literary life of European countries at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as reports on issues of preservation and popularization of their heritage at the national and international level. We also ask you to place a special emphasis on life and creative path of the central figures of the Women writers route project:
Maria Konopnicka (Poland);
Anna Akhmatova, Zinaida Gippius , Marina Tsvetaeva (Russia);
Desanka Maksimović, Isidora Sekulić , Jelena Dimitrijević (Serbia);
Božena Slančíková – Timrava , Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, Hana Gregorová (Slovakia);
Zofka Kveder, Lili Novy (Slovenia);
Ivana Brlić Mažuranić , Marija Jurić Zagorka (Croatia);
Divna Veković (Montenegro).
The round table will be held in an online format; The round table is also planned
to be covered by a live webcast on Culture.RF (Культура РФ) portal; The round
table materials will also be published.
We ask you to send the topic and a brief summary of your report (up to
1000 characters) ,as well as the information about the scope of your research
activities and contact details to the following email address: isslgrant@libfl.ru
(Department of Research Projects and Grant Monitoring of the Library of Foreign
Literature) until June 30, 2020.
Detailed information
Do experts know the idea of a literary work better?
What if everyone can read between the stanzas?
At the meetings of the club, we will try to interpret the poems of Anna Akhmatova, Zinaida Gippius and Marina Tsvetaeva outside of literary theories.
To do so, we will become familiar with the three steps of Heidegger's phenomenology. From you we require to be attentive and ready to express your opinion.
Events are held in support of the Women writers route project.
The club is led by Antonina Khozyainova, Leading Methodist of the Department of Research Projects and Grant Monitoring Library of Foreign Literature, a book blogger, and Master student of Consulting psychology and Personology program at the HSE.
Club meetings are held on July 8, 15, 22, 29 2020 at 19.00.
If you are willing to participate, write to the following email address to get a link: a.v.khozyainova@inbox.ru
What if everyone can read between the stanzas?
At the meetings of the club, we will try to interpret the poems of Anna Akhmatova, Zinaida Gippius and Marina Tsvetaeva outside of literary theories.
To do so, we will become familiar with the three steps of Heidegger's phenomenology. From you we require to be attentive and ready to express your opinion.
Events are held in support of the Women writers route project.
The club is led by Antonina Khozyainova, Leading Methodist of the Department of Research Projects and Grant Monitoring Library of Foreign Literature, a book blogger, and Master student of Consulting psychology and Personology program at the HSE.
Club meetings are held on July 8, 15, 22, 29 2020 at 19.00.
If you are willing to participate, write to the following email address to get a link: a.v.khozyainova@inbox.ru
News
The delegation of the Forum of Slavic Cultures paid a working visit to Ogulin, Croatia, where they met with the mayor of Ogulin and the director of Ivana's House of Fairy Tales. Ivana's House of Fairy Tales is the national coordinator of the Women Writers Route in Croatia.
After the inception of the Women Writers Route Association, the initiator of the European cultural route, partners officially started to join the project. Croatian partners of the Women Writers Route are the Centre for Women's Studies from Zagreb, now joined by the City of Ogulin and Ivana's House of Fairy Tales. The latter is also the national coordinator of the Women Writers Route in Croatia. Dalibor Domitrović, Mayor of Ogulin, Tihana Turković, Director of Ivana's House of Fairy Tales, Director of Forum of Slavic Cultures Andreja Rihter and FSK's Mateja Jančar, project manager, discussed the objectives of the Association, its envisaged activities and the application for certification of the cultural route at the Council of Europe.
The Croatian part of the Women Writers Route will focus on Marija Jurić Zagorka and Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, futher information about life and work of writers you can find in the scientific volume entitled Defiant Trajectories: Mapping out Slavic Women Writers Routes.
After the inception of the Women Writers Route Association, the initiator of the European cultural route, partners officially started to join the project. Croatian partners of the Women Writers Route are the Centre for Women's Studies from Zagreb, now joined by the City of Ogulin and Ivana's House of Fairy Tales. The latter is also the national coordinator of the Women Writers Route in Croatia. Dalibor Domitrović, Mayor of Ogulin, Tihana Turković, Director of Ivana's House of Fairy Tales, Director of Forum of Slavic Cultures Andreja Rihter and FSK's Mateja Jančar, project manager, discussed the objectives of the Association, its envisaged activities and the application for certification of the cultural route at the Council of Europe.
The Croatian part of the Women Writers Route will focus on Marija Jurić Zagorka and Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, futher information about life and work of writers you can find in the scientific volume entitled Defiant Trajectories: Mapping out Slavic Women Writers Routes.
"In the month when we celebrate International Women's Day, a volume dedicated to the nine women writers included in the Women Writers Route will be brought out. The volume will be published by the Forum of Slavic Cultures and the newly established association Women Writers Route."
Scientific volume entitled Defiant Trajectories: Mapping out Slavic Women Writers Routes sheds light on various aspects of the work and life stories of nine women writers and poets from the Slavic world: Marija Jurić Zagorka and Ivana Brlić Mažuranić from Croatia, Divna Veković from Montenegro, famous Russian authors Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and Zinaida Gippius, Maria Konopnicka from Poland, Jelena Dimitrijević from Serbia and Slovenian Zofka Kveder. Papers in the volume, which are extended research papers presented at the conference Women Writers at the Turn of 19th and 20th Century, organized by the FSK 2019 in Ljubljana, are connected by a common thread of crossing actual and symbolic boundaries set for women, and especially creative women, by the social norms of their time. "Therefore, mapping the paths of women writers is not only creating maps, which we then follow and by doing so enrich and deepen our knowledge of female literary authorship, but what is more, by following their footsteps we celebrate women's strength, innovation, and creativity," wrote the editors of the volume Biljana Dojčinović, Maša Grdešić and Katja Mihurko Poniž in the introduction to the book. The authors will present the proceedings at an online event at the end of March.
Scientific volume entitled Defiant Trajectories: Mapping out Slavic Women Writers Routes sheds light on various aspects of the work and life stories of nine women writers and poets from the Slavic world: Marija Jurić Zagorka and Ivana Brlić Mažuranić from Croatia, Divna Veković from Montenegro, famous Russian authors Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and Zinaida Gippius, Maria Konopnicka from Poland, Jelena Dimitrijević from Serbia and Slovenian Zofka Kveder. Papers in the volume, which are extended research papers presented at the conference Women Writers at the Turn of 19th and 20th Century, organized by the FSK 2019 in Ljubljana, are connected by a common thread of crossing actual and symbolic boundaries set for women, and especially creative women, by the social norms of their time. "Therefore, mapping the paths of women writers is not only creating maps, which we then follow and by doing so enrich and deepen our knowledge of female literary authorship, but what is more, by following their footsteps we celebrate women's strength, innovation, and creativity," wrote the editors of the volume Biljana Dojčinović, Maša Grdešić and Katja Mihurko Poniž in the introduction to the book. The authors will present the proceedings at an online event at the end of March.
The main aim of the contest is to support young talented translators and to promote
Russian language and literature abroad. Participants were offered to choose poems
on military topics by Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and Zinaida Hippius
and translate them into one of the languages of the contest: English, Belarusian,
Bulgarian, Italian, Spanish, German, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian,
Ukrainian, French, Croatian and Czech.
The international jury panel was composed of leading men of letters and translators
from all over the world.
Chairman of judges:
Evgeny Reznichenko, Executive Director, Autonomous Nonprofit Organization of
Assistance to the Development of the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation
«The Institute for Literary Translation»
Jury members:
List of prize-winners:
English
1. Maria Bashmakova (Samara, Russia)
2. Sophie Benbelaid (London, Great Britain)
3. Alexandra Golikova (Tver, Russia)
4. Alina Zhaltaeva (Orenburg, Russia)
5. Luke Jackmaw (Boston, USA)
Belarusian
6. Anastasia Kortugina (Gomel, Belarus)
Spanish
7. Alexander Dzyuba (La Coruña, Spain)
8. Irina Chernova (Moscow, Russia)
9. Marta Maria Perez Puerta (Granada, Spain)
Italian
10. Maria Yampolskaya (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
German
11. Anna Manaeva (Voronezh, Russia)
Serbian
12. Aida Fattakhova (Izhevsk, Russia)
Slovak
13. Alexandra Kovalchuk (Kiev, Ukraine)
Ukrainian
14. Vladimir Nikolaevich Mizerny (Horlivka, Ukraine)
15. Anastasia Yaroslavovna Nagurnaya (Kyiv, Ukraine)
16. Natalya Viktorovna Poloziuk (Kaspiysk, Russia)
French
17. Marina Igorevna Zvolinskaya (Moscow, Russia)
18. Anastasia Mikhaylovna Molchanova (Moscow, Russia)
Winners:
Anna Arezi (Providence, USA) for translation into Italian
Anna Achmatova «Trincee scavate in giardino» / Анна Ахматова «Щели в саду
вырыты»
Alexandr Dzyuba (La Coruña, Spain) for translation into Spanish
Zinaída Guipius «Sin excusa» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Без оправданья»
Svetlana Lelya (Pinsk, Belarus) for translation into Belarusian
Зінаіды Гіпіус «Юны сакавік» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Юный март»
Maya Milova (St Petersburg, Russia) for translation into English
Zinaida Gippius «No excuse» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Без оправданья»
Anastasia Molchanova (Moscow, Russia) for translation into French
Zinaïda Hippius «Pas d'excuses» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Без оправданья»
Georgy Prosyanik (Voronezh, Russia) for translation into German
Anna Achmatowa «Wenn begräbt man eine Epoche» / Анна Ахматова «Когда
погребают эпоху»
Filip Swierczynski (Warsaw, Poland) for translation into Polish
Anna Achmatowa «A więc zostałam jedna ja» / Анна Ахматова «И вот одна
осталась я»
Valeriya Semenskaya (Kharkiv, Ukraine) for translation into Ukrainian
Зінаїда Гіппіус «Все вона» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Все она»
Katerina Smokovic (Pula, Croatia) for translation into Croatian
Marina Cvjetajeva «Žrtvama školskih sumraka» / Марина Цветаева «Жертвам
школьных семерек»
Russian language and literature abroad. Participants were offered to choose poems
on military topics by Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and Zinaida Hippius
and translate them into one of the languages of the contest: English, Belarusian,
Bulgarian, Italian, Spanish, German, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian,
Ukrainian, French, Croatian and Czech.
The international jury panel was composed of leading men of letters and translators
from all over the world.
Chairman of judges:
Evgeny Reznichenko, Executive Director, Autonomous Nonprofit Organization of
Assistance to the Development of the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation
«The Institute for Literary Translation»
Jury members:
- Maria Blostein (Canada), PhD from York University (Canada). She studied Dostoevsky's influence on American culture and literature at Columbia University (USA).
- Gojko Božović (Serbia), poet, essayist, literary critic, founder and editor-in-chief of Archipelago publishing house, organizer of the European Literature Festival in Belgrade.
- Malgorzata Bockschneider (Poland), professional translator, specialist in civil, legal and literary translation.
- Sergey Borisov (Russia), Slavicist, Junior Researcher at the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, translator from Czech, Croatian, Serbian.
- Nikita Budkin (Russia), Lead Methodologist at the Rudomino Academy, MA in Philology.
- Stefano Garzonio (Italy), Doctor of Science, professor of Russian language and literature at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Pisa, translator, awarded the Alexander Pushkin Medal (2007) and the Globe Literary Prize laureate (2011).
- François Deweer (France), translator, publisher and Executive Director of the 100-volume Russian Library in French project.
- Peter Daniels (England), English poet and founder of the independent publisher «Pronoun Press», his translations have been nominated for Rossica, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Read Russia awards.
- Ekaterina Ivanova (Russia), Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor at the Second Language Department of Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Hispanist, professional translator.
- Slobodan Kadić (Croatia), newspaper journalist «Glas Slavonije» and lecturer in Croatian at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
- Stephen Capus (England), English writer and translator. He studied Russian language and literature at the University of Birmingham and researched the works of Marina Tsvetaeva at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London.
- Zhanna Klyshko (Russia), Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Director of Rudomino Academy, English teacher of the highest category.
- Anežka Kočalkova (Slovakia; Slovenia), Assistant at the Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, translator.
- Borut Krašević (Slovenia), one of the leading translators of Russian classics and modern literature into Slovene, writer. Winner of the Best Young Translator award (2004), winner of the Anton Sovre Award (2014), winner of the Best Literary Debut category (2020).
- Pavel Kuzmin (Russia), General Director of the Library of Foreign Literature.
- Elena Marukovich (Belarus, Russia), culturologist, Deputy Chairman of RNCA "Belarusians of Moscow".
- Elena Marchenko (Russia, Ukraine), poet, translator, member of the Russian Writers "Union and National Writers" Union of Ukraine, Head of Centre for Slavic Cultures at the Library for Foreign Literature.
- Alexander Nitzberg (Austria), poet, reciter, essayist, translator, winner of Read Russia award.
- Sergey Ponomarev (Russia), Deputy Director of Rudomino Academy, MA (Simmons College, Boston, USA, Graduate School of Library and Information Science).
- Maya Pramatarova (Bulgaria), art historian, playwright, translator, representativevof the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Moscow. Lecturer at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia and the National Academy of Theatre and Film Art in Bulgaria, founder and editor of Et cetera art almanac, theatre critic.
- Andrej Rozman (Slovenia), Slovenian Slavicist, specialist in study of literature, translator, member of Slovenska matica and other international Slavic communities, holder of the T. Pretnar Award. T. («Pretnarjeva nagrada», 2009), and professor at the University of Ljubljana.
- Oksana Stepanova (Russia), professional translator, Hispanist, Anglicist, an employee of Catalonia Tourism Representative Office in the Russian Federation.
- Yulia Sozina (Russia), Slavist, specialist in study of literature, translator, PhD in Philology, senior research fellow at the Department of History of Slavic Literatures of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Programme Board of the Forum of Slavic Cultures, Head of the Department of Research Projects and Grant Monitoring of the Library for Foreign Literature.
- Olga Tabachnikova (England), Ph. D. in Philosophy, Candidate of Philological and Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Russian Studies and Head of the Department of Russian Studies at the Vladimir Vysotsky Centre for Russian Studies in the Department of Languages and Global Studies at the University of Central Lancashire (England).
- Roman Chervontsev (Belarus, Russia), lawyer, ethnologist, ethnosociologist, Deputy Chair of the RNCA "Belarusians of Moscow".
- Lyubov Shamanina (Russia) Head of the Pearson Learning Studio Linguistic Resource Centre at the Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, professional translator and lecturer at the Russian Customs Academy.
List of prize-winners:
English
1. Maria Bashmakova (Samara, Russia)
2. Sophie Benbelaid (London, Great Britain)
3. Alexandra Golikova (Tver, Russia)
4. Alina Zhaltaeva (Orenburg, Russia)
5. Luke Jackmaw (Boston, USA)
Belarusian
6. Anastasia Kortugina (Gomel, Belarus)
Spanish
7. Alexander Dzyuba (La Coruña, Spain)
8. Irina Chernova (Moscow, Russia)
9. Marta Maria Perez Puerta (Granada, Spain)
Italian
10. Maria Yampolskaya (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
German
11. Anna Manaeva (Voronezh, Russia)
Serbian
12. Aida Fattakhova (Izhevsk, Russia)
Slovak
13. Alexandra Kovalchuk (Kiev, Ukraine)
Ukrainian
14. Vladimir Nikolaevich Mizerny (Horlivka, Ukraine)
15. Anastasia Yaroslavovna Nagurnaya (Kyiv, Ukraine)
16. Natalya Viktorovna Poloziuk (Kaspiysk, Russia)
French
17. Marina Igorevna Zvolinskaya (Moscow, Russia)
18. Anastasia Mikhaylovna Molchanova (Moscow, Russia)
Winners:
Anna Arezi (Providence, USA) for translation into Italian
Anna Achmatova «Trincee scavate in giardino» / Анна Ахматова «Щели в саду
вырыты»
Alexandr Dzyuba (La Coruña, Spain) for translation into Spanish
Zinaída Guipius «Sin excusa» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Без оправданья»
Svetlana Lelya (Pinsk, Belarus) for translation into Belarusian
Зінаіды Гіпіус «Юны сакавік» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Юный март»
Maya Milova (St Petersburg, Russia) for translation into English
Zinaida Gippius «No excuse» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Без оправданья»
Anastasia Molchanova (Moscow, Russia) for translation into French
Zinaïda Hippius «Pas d'excuses» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Без оправданья»
Georgy Prosyanik (Voronezh, Russia) for translation into German
Anna Achmatowa «Wenn begräbt man eine Epoche» / Анна Ахматова «Когда
погребают эпоху»
Filip Swierczynski (Warsaw, Poland) for translation into Polish
Anna Achmatowa «A więc zostałam jedna ja» / Анна Ахматова «И вот одна
осталась я»
Valeriya Semenskaya (Kharkiv, Ukraine) for translation into Ukrainian
Зінаїда Гіппіус «Все вона» / Зинаида Гиппиус «Все она»
Katerina Smokovic (Pula, Croatia) for translation into Croatian
Marina Cvjetajeva «Žrtvama školskih sumraka» / Марина Цветаева «Жертвам
школьных семерек»
The Women Writers Route Association, which will apply for the certificate of the European cultural route, has been formally established and registered in accordance with regulations. The project partners are actively involved in the design and implementation of activities, including Biljana Dojčinović from Serbia, a member of the WWR Scientific Council.
The WWR project sealed the memorable 2020 with the formal establishment and registration of the Women Writers Route Association. All partners and activities are now also formally joined under the same roof and are looking forward to the realization of the exciting and attractive activities listed in the programme of the WWR project.
In terms of content, one of them is also Knjiženstvo, Journal for Studies in Literature, Gender and Culture which has just published its 10th issue.
https://www.fsk.si/wwr-officially-established/
The WWR project sealed the memorable 2020 with the formal establishment and registration of the Women Writers Route Association. All partners and activities are now also formally joined under the same roof and are looking forward to the realization of the exciting and attractive activities listed in the programme of the WWR project.
In terms of content, one of them is also Knjiženstvo, Journal for Studies in Literature, Gender and Culture which has just published its 10th issue.
https://www.fsk.si/wwr-officially-established/
Even in the new conditions, activities within the new cultural route dedicated to women writers have not died down. The program council and the scientific council of the emerging association met at online meetings. Members of the program council, chaired by Tihana Turković, director of Ivana's Fairytale House from Ogulin, Croatia, reviewed the activity report, drafted a work program, talked about future activities and exchanged good practices.
The Scientific Council, which consists of members from as many as 10 countries, is chaired by Prof. Katja Mihurko Poniž discussed the literary- and socio-historical criteria for the selection of women writers included in the project, as well as scientific meetings, publications and programs for students, which are planned for next year as part of the Women Writers Route. Director of the FSK Andreja Rihter, PhD, addressed the participants of the meeting and said, among other things: "Together we are on an untrodden path, we are creating something completely new. Unexpected and exciting discoveries are coming our way and we may just as well enjoy it."
The Scientific Council, which consists of members from as many as 10 countries, is chaired by Prof. Katja Mihurko Poniž discussed the literary- and socio-historical criteria for the selection of women writers included in the project, as well as scientific meetings, publications and programs for students, which are planned for next year as part of the Women Writers Route. Director of the FSK Andreja Rihter, PhD, addressed the participants of the meeting and said, among other things: "Together we are on an untrodden path, we are creating something completely new. Unexpected and exciting discoveries are coming our way and we may just as well enjoy it."
Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature with the The Institute for Literary Translation invites everyone to take part in the International translation contest "Writers of the Silver Age about war", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The contest is a part of the project of new cultural route of the Council of Europe "Women Writers Route".
The contest is aimed to support young and talented translators in promoting the Russian language and literature in Europe.
If you are under the age of 40, have a good command of one of the languages listed below and want to prove yourself in the field of poetic translation (or already have relevant experience), then fill in the application for participation (the form is offered below) and e-mail it along with your contest entry to the address of the organizing committee (isslgrant@libfl.ru).
Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zinaida Gippius reflecting on wartime's experience are offered for translation. Participants are free to make a choice themselves.
Requirements for entries:
1. The translation is made by an applicant individually;
2. The translation has never been published before;
3. The total volume of translated texts does not exceed 150 poetic lines;
4. The translation is provided in one of the languages listed:
· Belorussian
· Bulgarian
·Croatian
· Czech
· German
· English
· Italian
· Macedonian
· Serbian
· Slovenian
· Spanish
· Ukrainian
Requirements for formalisation:
1. the translation is accepted in electronic form (in RTF format);
2. Times New Roman font, 12 pt size, 1.5 line spacing
Applications for participation and completed translations are accepted only in electronic form until November 10, 2020 inclusive at the following e-mail: isslgrant@libfl.ru with an indication in the subject line: "Translation contest. Language. Last name of the participant" (for example, "Translation Contest. Polish. Fokin").
The contest is supported by Forum of Slavic Cultures (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the foreign mission of Rossotrudnichestvo (International Humanitarian Cooperation) in Croatia and the faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia).
The contest is aimed to support young and talented translators in promoting the Russian language and literature in Europe.
If you are under the age of 40, have a good command of one of the languages listed below and want to prove yourself in the field of poetic translation (or already have relevant experience), then fill in the application for participation (the form is offered below) and e-mail it along with your contest entry to the address of the organizing committee (isslgrant@libfl.ru).
Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zinaida Gippius reflecting on wartime's experience are offered for translation. Participants are free to make a choice themselves.
Requirements for entries:
1. The translation is made by an applicant individually;
2. The translation has never been published before;
3. The total volume of translated texts does not exceed 150 poetic lines;
4. The translation is provided in one of the languages listed:
· Belorussian
· Bulgarian
·Croatian
· Czech
· German
· English
· Italian
· Macedonian
· Serbian
· Slovenian
· Spanish
· Ukrainian
Requirements for formalisation:
1. the translation is accepted in electronic form (in RTF format);
2. Times New Roman font, 12 pt size, 1.5 line spacing
Applications for participation and completed translations are accepted only in electronic form until November 10, 2020 inclusive at the following e-mail: isslgrant@libfl.ru with an indication in the subject line: "Translation contest. Language. Last name of the participant" (for example, "Translation Contest. Polish. Fokin").
The contest is supported by Forum of Slavic Cultures (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the foreign mission of Rossotrudnichestvo (International Humanitarian Cooperation) in Croatia and the faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia).
The FSC began the year with intensive preparations for the launch of a new cultural route – Women Writers Route. The President of the Programme Council of the Route, Ankica Puškarić, came to the FSC headquarters for a working meeting.
In the first days of the new year, the FSC Director Andreja Rihter met with the President of the Programme Council of this project, Ankica Puškarić, the Director of Ivana's House of Fairytales from Ogulin, Croatia, a partner organization and one of the stops on the emerging cultural route. They discussed the tasks of the Programme Council, and in particular activities for 2020, when the project will apply for the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe certificate, as well as in the future. They also touched on promotion and ways to bring the Women Writers Route to the widest possible audience, paying particular attention to children and youth.
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In the first days of the new year, the FSC Director Andreja Rihter met with the President of the Programme Council of this project, Ankica Puškarić, the Director of Ivana's House of Fairytales from Ogulin, Croatia, a partner organization and one of the stops on the emerging cultural route. They discussed the tasks of the Programme Council, and in particular activities for 2020, when the project will apply for the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe certificate, as well as in the future. They also touched on promotion and ways to bring the Women Writers Route to the widest possible audience, paying particular attention to children and youth.
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Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro joined the project. The list of women writers:
- Croatia: Ivana Brlić Mažuranić (1874 – 1938), children's writer and first women member of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and Arts; Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873 – 1957), journalist, writer, playwright.
- Montenegro: Divna Veković (1886 – 1941), medicine doctor and translator;
- Poland: Maria Konopnicka (1842 – 1910), writer, poet, translator, literary critic, activist;
- Russia: Anna Akhmatova (1889 – 1966), poet, writer, literary critic, literary historian and translator;Zinaida Gippius (1869 – 1954), poet, playwright , novelist, editor and thinker; Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 – 1941), poet;
- Serbia: Desanka Maksimović (1898 – 1993), poet, writer, translator;Isidora Sekulić (1877 – 1958), prose writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic;Jelena Dimitrijević (1862 – 1945), writer, novelist, traveller, poet, feminist;
- Slovenia: Zofka Kveder (1878 – 1926), writer, playwright, translator, journalist and feminist.
Moscow, early XX century. Vendors in Red Square. Source: History of Moscow
Saint Petersburg and Moscow are seen as the most important cities associated with the life and work of Russian women writers. Some small towns, settlements and villages however will also form a part of the route telling the travelers about life in provincial and rural Russia.
Apart from that, the route will provide an excellent opportunity to attract potential investors for heritage sites' infrastructure development, especially in regions such as Vladimir and Kaluga region, the Republic of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Crimea and others.
Apart from that, the route will provide an excellent opportunity to attract potential investors for heritage sites' infrastructure development, especially in regions such as Vladimir and Kaluga region, the Republic of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Crimea and others.
Vitebsk railway station In St. Petersburg. 1900s. Source:moiarussia.ru
Partners of the project
The International Foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures is a non-profit and non-governmental organization which unites Slavic countries. The Forum's mission is to promote the comprehensive development and dissemination of Slavic cultures and bring together the Slavic peoples, and preserve their common cultural, historical and scientific heritage.
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The Museum's exposition tells about the stay of Marina Tsvetaeva and her future husband Sergei Efron in rural locality of Usen-Ivanovskoe during the summer of 1911. Sergei then was ill with tuberculosis, and after the disease has worsened, he needed kumis treatment. The main fund of the Museum is more than 800 exhibits, including personal belongings of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva. The Museum organizes guided tours along the tourist route "My village" and annually holds the literary and musical festival "Tsvetaevsky bonfire".
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The Museum`s exhibition tells about the period of Anna Akhmatova's evacuation from the besieged Leningrad. The writer spent less than three years in Tashkent: from November 1941 to May 1944. Unfortunately, the house where the poet Anna Andreevna lived was not preserved. Its windows overlooked the "mangalochy yard" (the yard where mangal (barbecue) stands) and that gives the name to the Museum. Among the exhibits one can find copies of Anna Akhmatova's notes and original letters of other famous cultural figures such as Korney Chukovsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Nadezhda Mandelstam, who also spent the evacuation years in Tashkent. The Museum allows one to feel the atmosphere of evacuation Tashkent and imagine the simplicity of the environment in which Anna Akhmatova lived in those distant 40s.
The project is carried out through the Russian center of science and culture in Tashkent.
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The project is carried out through the Russian center of science and culture in Tashkent.
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The permanent Museum exhibition "The Marina Tsvetaeva`s summer in Alexandrov" is devoted to the oeuvre of the poetess from autumn of 1915 to May 1917. The unique personal belongings of Marina Tsvetaeva and her sister Anastasia recreate the atmosphere of the life of the writers. The exhibition is carried out in the format of stage design, where the exhibition hall becomes a stage, and the exhibits become actors in a certain drama of a Museum performance. At the museum there is also the oldest and largest poetry festival held – Tsvetayeva's poetry festival.
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The Museum's exposition tells about the literary work of Marina Tsvetaeva, her creative and friendly relationship with literary figures of the era, the attitude of contemporaries to her personality, and about significant events in the life of Marina Tsvetaeva. At the Museum one can see lifetime editions of the works of M. Tsvetaeva and her contemporaries, numerous modern editions of Tsvetaeva's works and translations of her works into the languages of the peoples of the world, unique archival documents, autographs, letters, rare family photos, and memorial items.
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The sisters Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva spent the winters during 1907-1910 in Tarusa with their father I.V. Tsvetaev – professor, founder of State Museum of Fine Arts (now The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts) – who spent the time there during 1903-1912. The Museum's exposition contains materials dedicated to M.I. Tsvetaeva and her entire family, which occupies a special place in Russian culture. On the display among the memorial exhibits of the Museum there are furniture items from the Moscow house located in Trehprudny Lane where Marina Tsvetaeva was born, items that belonged to her, her relatives and friends, Tarusa relatives and friends.
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The library is located in the Streletskaya Buhta, where the dacha "Otradnaya" was located , where "the last Chersonesus dweller", "the last khersonidka" – as the future poet called herself – lived during the summer. Every year the library hosts Akhmatova readings – the Akhmatova readers competition, "Creative salute in honor of Anna Akhmatova" fest, "Flowers of the great Akhmatova" eco-campaign. The special exhibition "Museum in a Suitcase" displays a collection of antiques that reflects the time of Akhmatova's life and work. The priorities of Museum`s activity is the popularization of the name of A.Akhmatova in three perspectives: research (the collection process, study and documentation of the collected information), education (assistance in the formation of a citizen's personality of high moral values, views and attitudes), and artistic and aesthetic activities (creating conditions for creative self-realization).
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Join the project
We invite you to cooperate with cultural institutions dedicated to the work of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zinaida Gippius and other prominent women of the early twentieth century.
Become a volunteer
If you are interested in the project, become a volunteer!
Volunteers keep us in constant contact with Russian and foreign partners, organize public events, and work with library collections.
You will get a unique experience of project activities and join the world's cultural heritage.
Volunteers keep us in constant contact with Russian and foreign partners, organize public events, and work with library collections.
You will get a unique experience of project activities and join the world's cultural heritage.
isslgrant@libfl.ru
Manager of the Russian part of the project
Yulia Sozina
Head of the Department for Research Projects and Grant Monitoring, Library of Foreign Literature
Deputy head
Antonina Khoziainova
Project coordinator
Department for Research Projects and Grant Monitoring, Library of Foreign Literature
Yulia Sozina
Head of the Department for Research Projects and Grant Monitoring, Library of Foreign Literature
Deputy head
Antonina Khoziainova
Project coordinator
Department for Research Projects and Grant Monitoring, Library of Foreign Literature
Library for Foreign Literature Collection
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A.A. Akhmatova's artistic works:
- more than 100 book units;
- a wide selection of translations into international languages (English, Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Serbian, Ukrainian, French, Czech, Swedish).
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M.I. Tsvetaeva's artistic works:
- more than 150 book units;
- a wide selection of translations into international languages (Albanian, English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, French, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, German, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish).
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Z.N. Gippius's artistic works and critical articles:
- more than 20 book units;
- translations into German and Bulgarian.
