Tatiana Shcherbina: Self-censorship in modern Russia

On Thursday 10 March the Centre for Russian Studies will host a special lecture and poetry reading in Russian with the prominent Russian poet and critic Tatiana Shcherbina.

All are welcome to attend the lecture on 'Censorship and self-censorship in Russian literature and media today', followed by a reading of Tatiana's poetry accompanied by drinks in the Masaryk Senior Common Room. 

Both the lecture and poetry reading will be in Russian language.

Biography
Tatiana Shcherbina is a Russian poet and prose writer, journalist and translator. She graduated from the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University, and worked as a journalist in Russia and then at Radio Liberty. Tatiana has lived in Munich and Paris, publishing her articles in many Western newspapers and journals. She wrote her poems in Russian and French and produced an anthology of French poetry with her own translations. Tatiana Shcherbina is the author of numerous books of poetry, prose and essays, including amongst other things, two volumes of poems Dialogue with an Angel (1999), Transparent World (2002), and the novel Confession of a Spy (2007).