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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.
Lit&Lunch with Novelist Jose Manuel Prieto in Conversation with Translator Esther AllenLit&Lunch audio, June 9, 2009 10:38:00 PM
Hear Cuban author Jose Manuel Prieto and translator Esther Allen speak about Rex, translation, Proust, and many other topics. Prieto and Allen appeared as part of the Center for the Art of Translation's Lit&Lunch series.
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
Monday Nov 28: Join Us For Peter Stamm
Posted on November 21, 2011 by Scott Esposito
The perfect way to get over those turkey hangovers is to come out and join us for Switzerland's premiere novelist, Peter Stamm, with an open bar courtesy of the Swiss consulate! It's happening the Monday after Thanksgiving, on Nov 28. It's our last event of 2011, and it's free!
It all starts at 6:00 pm at Chronicle Books, 680 Second St, San Francisco (map), where Peter Stamm will be in conversation with the Center's own CJ Evans. Stamm's books will be available for sale, and he will sign books after the event.
If you're coming, let us know on Facebook and spread the word to your friends!
Praised by The New York Times as "a writer to read," Stamm has received several prestigious awards and has been translated into English by Michael Hofmann, poet and translator of Franz Kafka, Thomas Bernhard, Joseph Roth, and Nobel laureate Herta Mueller.
One more time, here are the details:
- Chronicle Books
- 680 Second Street, San Francisco, CA
- 6:00 PM
- FREE
- Reception to follow with open bar funded by Swiss Consulate of San Francisco
And here's more praise for Stamm:
"Lean as it is, his prose is wonderfully 'literary' in its fine integration of voice and story. The constant disorientation of his characters, their sense that their lives are interchangeable with any number of other lives, seem peculiarly suited to this era of globalization." — The New York Review of Books
"Stamm is a master of quietly deliberative stories." — Bookforum