Win Books Signed by Natasha Wimmer and Breon Mitchell!

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

This winter, we're offering our donors a chance to win some great books signed by notable translators Natasha Wimmer and Breon Mitchell! Here's the low-down:



Give $5 or more to the Center between now and Jan 11, 2010, and you'll be entered into 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 two of this year's most exciting translators: Natasha Wimmer and Breon Mitchell. The winner receives 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