News from the Division of Languages and Literature

Neil Gaiman’s ghoulish children’s novella Coraline is being adapted by the Royal Opera in London.

On Monday, April 2, novelist and short story writer Laura van den Berg, winner of the 2015 Bard Fiction Prize, will read from her work at Bard College.

The US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music will present the Harmony and Power conference and concert series on March 30–31 on the Bard College campus.

Long Soldier received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her poetry collection Whereas, “a brilliantly innovative text that examines history, landscapes, and identities.”

Russian novelist, essayist, and short story writer Tatyana Tolstaya will read from her new collection Aetherial Worlds.

On Thursday, March 29, prominent Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, and public intellectual Tatyana Tolstaya will speak at Bard College about her new book, Aetherial Worlds, a collection of 18 stories.

“One of the finest, most dimensional inquiries into the significance of books and the role of reading in human life comes from Neil Gaiman.”