Events

Polish author Wioletta Greg discusses her new novel from Transit Books, Swallowing Mercury, with Molly Parent.

Join us for a casual evening event to celebrate the art of translation and share translations-in-progress with a room full of other translators.

The Center for the Art of Translation is partnering with Litquake to bring world-class authors and translators to the Litquake festival for an unparalleled five nights of world literature.

Inspired by a short cellphone video of a raft of refugees, shot by a tourist from the deck of a cruise ship, Merle Kröger and Philip Scheffner created both a feature film and a novel, Havarie (Collision).

World literature is for kids too! Celebrate international children’s literature with Brazilian writer and illustrator Roger Mello and Daniel Hahn, editor of the Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature.

Join us for happy hour at the CAT and Two Lines offices to celebrate the release of A Working Woman. Stop by after work for wine and tapas and hear readings from the book by Two Lines staff.

Founding editors of McSweeney’s Poetry Series, Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan, join Ilya Kaminsky to serve up a sharp collection of poems from around the globe and across generations.

Join internationally acclaimed French novelist Mathias Énard as he discusses his novel, Compass (New Directions), winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt and shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize.

Bolivian-Canadian writer Alejandro Saravia and poet and translator María José Giménez discuss his new novel, Red, Yellow, Green, the first to be translated into English, as well as the tumultuous existence of the exile, the crossings of language, and Latino-Canadian literature.