Two Voices Salon: Publisher Chad Post on Chinese Author Can Xue
Doors at 5:30. Event will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m.
Center for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street, Suite 700 | San Francisco, CA
The Center’s Scott Esposito will talk with publisher Chad Post via Skype about the latest book in translation from Chinese writer Can Xue, Frontier, “one of the most raved-about works of translated fiction this year.”
Light snacks and drinks will be provided. Come prepared to join the conversation!
Chad Post is the publisher of Open Letter Books, a nonprofit literary translation press based at the University of Rochester. He also oversees the annual Best Translated Book Awards.
Can Xue is the pseudonym of Chinese writer Deng Xiaohoa, who is the author of six novels and numerous novellas and short stories, as well as several commentaries. Born in 1953 to a family that suffered persecution in anti-rightist campaigns and the Cultural Revolution, she began writing in 1983 and has become known for her abstract style and unconventional narrative form.