Lecture by Russian exile writer Maria Stepanova

Between History and Story: (Post) Memorial Literature in the Post-Soviet Space

Russian exile writer Maria Stepanova will lecture on post-Soviet European memory and literary writing. Tine Roesen will moderate the talk.

About Maria Stepavona

Maria Stepanova, who was born in Moscow in 1972, is recognized as one of the foremost poets of her generation. She is also an essayist and the editor-in-chief of Colta.ru, a highly influential online publication. Her first major prose work, "In Memory of Memory" (2017), further established her prominence, earning her the Big Book Prize and the NOS Literary Prize, along with countless translations and reviews in international media. The work was translated into Danish by Tine Roesen as "Til minde om erindringen" (Forlaget Palomar).

About Tine Roesen

Tine Roesen is an Associate Professor of Russian literature at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH. She has translated several works of contemporary and classical Russian literature into Danish.

The lecture is connected to the MA and BA course "Atrocities and Cultural Memory: literature, education and debate in Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and Russia, Ukraine and Belarus" conducted this autumn at East European Studies.

The lecture is funded by the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES)