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Featured Audio and Articles
June 12: A Night of Fairy TalesScott Esposito, May 14, 2012 11:57:00 AM
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join us for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tartar take you deep into the dark woods with readings from classic and contemporary fairytales. And these aren't the fairytales you grew up with—they're the darkest, scariest tales you've ever heard! A reception with cash bar will follow the event.
If you can make it, definitely plan to drop by. This event is super affordable, and promises to be a memorable experience!
TWO VOICES: Carmen Boullosa and Pura Lopez ColomeScott Esposito, October 17, 2011 01:28:00 PM
Mexico is traditionally thought of as a country in love with machismo, and that fact can be seen in the Mexican writers who succeed in English—among them Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, and Octavio Paz. Yet there are many women in Mexico writing landmark literature, and this audio presents two of them. As part of the annual Litquake literature festival in San Francisco, the Center for the Art of Translation partnered with the Mexican Consulate to present two of Mexico's most vital female writers: Carmen Boullosa and Pura López Colomé.
TWO VOICES: Novelist Sergio ChejfecScott Esposito, May 10, 2012 12:54:00 PM
In his Two Voices presentation on May 8, lauded Argentine author Sergio Chejfec started by explaining the biographical roots of his strange, compelling novel The Planets. The book is about an Argentine who goes missing during the military dictatorship of 1976-82, and Chejfec began by explaining that the plot of the book actually has to do with a friend of his who did disappear during the military dictatorship for the 1970s. He was one of an estimated 30,000 Argentines to disappear during that span.
Upcoming Events
Lit&Lunch: How to Translate Fairy Tales, with Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tatar
June 12, 2012
Contributors and the editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, an anthology of fairy tales, discuss the unique craft of translating myth and the history of fairy tales.
A Night of Fairy Tales
June 12, 2012
To close out the 2011-12 Two Voices season, join the staff and friends of the Center for the Art of Translation for a special evening on translating fairy tales!
Audio Entries
Enter by Jan. 11 to Win Signed Books
Posted on January 06, 2010 byAs a reminder, you have until this Monday, Jan. 11 to win some great books signed by translators Natasha Wimmer and Breon Mitchell!
Donate $5 or more to the Center by Jan 11 we'll enter you a drawing for books featuring Lit&Lunch translators, as well as Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed. It just takes a minute to donate online.
First prize is a three-book package featuring translator-signed copies of Roberto Bolano's 2666 and Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, plus a copy of the newest Two Lines anthology, Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed.
Two runners-up will each receive a translator-signed copy of The Tin Drum and a copy of Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed.
Every donation really counts, which is why we brought the threshold for this giveaway to just $5. Those who pledge $20 or more will get 3 chances to win, and those who sign up for a recurring donation totaling $50 or more over the course of next year will have 5 chances to win these excellent books.
To enter, all you need to do is make a donation online of $5 or more. Last year, your donations helped us:
- Host Lit&Lunch events featuring leading translators and writers like Esther Allen and Yoko Tawada
- Publish the acclaimed, IndieBound Indie Next List pick Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed, with work from over 20 nations, including Nobel-winner Gunter Grass and an excerpt from the groundbreaking novel Rex
- Educate hundreds of youths in our in-school program, Poetry Inside Out
- Expand our online community with the launch of the Two Words blog, our Facebook page, an audio archive of our Lit&Lunch events, and The Art of Translation podcast
This coming year, your support will allow us to:
- Continue bringing great authors and translators to the Bay Area for Lit&Lunch, and making their presentations available for listening on the Web
- Publish the next volume of Two Lines, edited by Jeffrey Yang and Natasha Wimmer, and the next book in our World Library series
- Create a Poetry Inside Out teacher training program to give teachers the tools and materials to teach the program in their own classroom
- Continue to expand our growing Web community with a website redesign