A Night with Margaret Jull Costa
Book Club of California | 312 Sutter Street | San Francisco, CA
Join us on Monday, August 13 at 7:00 pm for a rare opportunity to see legendary translator Margaret Jull Costa discuss her work with Nobel laureate Jose Saramago. It all happens at the beautiful Book Club of California, where you’ll sip good wine and Speakeasy beer and be surrounded by a library full of books.
Costa is the acclaimed translator of literary giants from Spanish and Portuguese, including Jose Saramago, Javier Marias, Bernardo Atxaga, and Eça de Queirós. Here she provides unique insight into Jose Saramago’s distinctive body of work, gleaned from her decades of close scrutiny while translating this master’s novels.
A reception will follow with cash bar and plenty of conversation with fellow bibliophiles, all within the beautiful confines of the Book Club of San Francisco, home to thousands of books and exhibitions on literary culture.
Margaret Jull Costa has worked as a translator for over thirty years, translating the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers, among them novelists: Javier Marías, José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz, and Teolinda Gersão, and poets: Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, and Ana Luísa Amaral. Her work has brought her many prizes, most recently the Premio Valle-Inclán for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes.
Jose Saramago is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. He is the author of numerous novels, including All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.