Welcome
George Mason University | 4400 University Drive | Fairfax, VA
Join us for our second annual “Day of Translation” with the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center. All panels and events will take place on the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, VA.
Writers and translators appearing include Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Chris Clarke, Elisabeth Jaquette, Megan McDowell, Anna Morales, Sawako Nakayasu, Vivek Narayanan, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Heather Green, Lara Vergnaud, and Alex Zucker.
Poetry Inside Out
Poetry Inside Out is a collaborative language arts curriculum that celebrates classroom diversity, builds literacy skills, improves critical thinking, and unlocks creativity by teaching students to translate great poetry from around the world. By practicing the art of translation, students become familiar with the building blocks of language and the full range of expression available to them as readers, writers, speakers, thinkers, and world citizens.
-
The longtime bookseller, writer, and co-owner of Point Reyes Books tells us what’s on his reading list this summer.
July 2, 2018 -
Our “Noir with a Twist” collection features three novels from France, China, and Brazil that reinvent one of the most exhausted modern genres. We put together a list of international films to accompany your reading this summer.
July 24, 2018 -
The latest and greatest from the world of translated literature.
July 31, 2017
My pen falls off the table in the New World café on Nowy Świat Street, central Warsaw. I bend down to pick it up, and see two things lying on the floor; as well as the pen, in the crack between the table leg and the wall, there’s a piece of paper—yellow with age and covered in scribble. It’s not a page from an exercise book, more like a notebook. On either side somebody has written a list of people’s names, with the years of their birth—all in the 1930s, and their addresses. I think it must be important to someone, so I would simply hand it in to the waiter, if not for the fact that all the names on it belong to women, and that one of them is a personal friend of mine.