Center Open House with Special Guest Michael Henry Heim
Center for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street, Suite 700 | San Francisco, CA
Come see our new offices, meet and mingle with us, and hear lauded translator Michael Henry Heim! It’s all part of the first Two Voices event of the 2011-2012 season.
Heim, translator of dozens of books from nine different languages, including works by Milan Kundera and Thomas Mann, opens our 2011–2012 season with a special open house event. It all takes place at the Center’s new offices in the historic Hobart building, where you’ll be treated to a reception and a short reading by Heim himself.
Michael Henry Heim was one of the most respected translators of his generation. Over his career, he translated more than sixty works from more than eight different languages, including books by Milan Kundera, Dubravka Ugresic, Hugo Claus, and Anton Chekov. Upon his death in 2012 it was revealed that Heim was the anonymous donor responsible for the largest fund in America supporting up-and-coming translators.