Reposted by Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 11/04/2026Calligraphy by Barbara Galińska #StopWar 039292
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Gisèle Pelicot's only US event, March 30th in NYC:92ny.org 010
Reposted by Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏Vintage Books @vintagebooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for ‘shame to change sides’. For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story. A Hymn to Life will be published in February 2026. Order your copy today: lnk.to/GiselePelicot 072
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Gratifying to see that one of the Guardian's picks for 2026 is Gisèle Pelicot's memoir, A HYMN TO LIFE, co-translated by Natasha Lehrer and yours truly. A heartbreaking but necessary read.theguardian.comBooks to look out for in 2026 – nonfictionMemoirs from Liza Minnelli and Lena Dunham, essays by David Sedaris and Alan Bennett’s diaries are among the highlights of the year ahead 151
Reposted by Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025FULL HOUSE @foylesforbooks.bsky.social last night for the charismatic, incredible Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse talking to @fergalkeane.bsky.social about their shared experiences and memories of her escape from #Rwanda at the age of 15, and her IMMENSE, moving #memoir #TheConvoy t @ruthdiver.bsky.social 091
Reposted by Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 27/02/2025#PublicationDay One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read… Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda #translator @ruthdiver.bsky.social 📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE 📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv #BookSky #memoir 031
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Today, [...] the US delegation to the UN voted against a resolution condemning Russia for its aggression in Ukraine and calling for it to end its occupation. That is, the U.S. voted against a resolution that reiterated that one nation must not invade another[...]. 040
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 20/02/2025THE CONVOY, by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, tells the story of her search for documentary evidence of her escape from the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in June 1994. She wat 15 at the time. For friends in the UK, the author will be making several presentations of her work. 150
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 17/02/2025open.substack.comUS Coup Gains SpeedEurope shakes as new world order emerges. Here's what's not on the front page of the New York Times right now 020
Reposted by Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025February 2, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comFebruary 2, 2025Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a... 15237181201
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Wonderful to see Charif Majdalani's A History of the Big House reviewed in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...nytimes.comBook Review: ‘A History of the Big House,’ by Charif MajdalaniThe first English translation of Charif Majdalani’s 2005 novel “A History of the Big House” charts one family’s — and country’s — cycles of prosperity and ruin. 140
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Thrilled to get my translator's copies! Charif Majdalani's delightful reimagining of his family history in the orange groves of Mount Lebanon, from the time of the Ottoman empire through the French mandate to the present day, a lesson in resistance & resilience. Publishing w Other Press in Dec/Jan. 170
Reposted by Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 05/11/2023I wrote this, and it's from the heart. And I'm scared of putting it out in the world. www.patreon.com/posts/92308751 6828543
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 31/10/2023For any readers of Russian out there, an interview with Iegor Gran, given in French to Radio France International and translated into Russian, entitled 'For me, "great Russian culture" is the Gulag.' www.rfi.fr/ru/%D0%BE%D0...rfi.frЕгор Гран: «Для меня „великая русская культура“ — это...Большой разговор с Егором Граном, французским писателем и сыном советского диссидента и писателя Андрея Син�... 152
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social · 25/10/2023Brimming with excitement! Tomorrow is UK pub day for THE COMPETENT AUTHORITY, Iegor Gran's novel about his father, the dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, whose notorious trial in 1966, for the contents of hid literary works published abroad under a pseudonym, marked the end of the Thaw. 270
