Georges Nivat - Curriculum vitae#

• Born in 1935 in Clermont-Ferrand (France) French Citizen
• Full Professor at the University of Geneva from 1972 to 2000 (head of the Chair of Slavistics at the Faculté des Lettres from 1975 to 2000). Since 2000 Honorary Professor.
• President of the « Rencontres internationales de Genève» (succeeded to Jean Starobinski) from 1998 to 2010. Now Honorary president of the Rencontres.
• Former Director of the « Institut européen de l’Université de Genève » (1998 – 2000)

Education

Studied at the Lycée Blaise Pascal at Clermont-Ferrand (later was given the title of Honorary Citizen of the city), then at the Sorbonne and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (1955 -1960). Also studied two years at Lomonosov University in Moscow and one year at Saint Antony's College (Oxford). Former Research Scholar at the Davis Russian Research Center (Harvard University) and the Hoover Institute (University of Stanford).

Honors and Awards

• Doctor Honoris causa of the Mohyla Academy in Kiev and of the Academy of Sciences – « Pushkinskij House », in St Petersburg
• Honorary Counsellor of the European University Saint-Petersburg
• Received the Vernadsky Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine
• Received the Russkaja Premiaj of the Eltsin Centre in Moscow
• Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
• Pushkin medal

Co-director and editor of Histoire de la littérature russe en six tomes. Fayard Paris 1999-2007 (one tome translated and published in Russian, one in Italian).

Member of the board of editors of the Cahiers du Monde Russe (Paris, CNRS) and of Slavica Helvetica (Bern). Literary Prize of the région Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, January 1999.