Past Events

Celebrate 25 years of Two Lines and the latest issue with us!

Two Lines Press travels to Los Angeles to participate in LITLIT, the first annual Little Literary Fair, co-hosted with Hauser & Wirth Publishers, in partnership with the LARB/USC Publishing Workshop.

Translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton present Kim Sagwa’s English debut Mina at Powell’s Books in Portland.

Minna Zallman Proctor, author of Landslide and editor of The Literary Review, discusses her translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such with writer and critic Ismail Muhammad.

Join Two Lines Press at the third annual Press Fest, an indie book fair hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).

Aaron Coleman and Katherine Silver join Innosanto Nagara at the Bay Area Book Festival to discuss engaging with the world in ways that go well beyond the books they’ve published.

We’re a festival sponsor at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. Here’s where you can find us:

Bright author Duanwad Pimwana and translator Mui Poopoksakul join Rene Denfeld and Hanne Ørstavik at the Bay Area Book Festival.

Duanwad Pimwana discusses her novel and a short story collection with translator Mui Poopoksakul at the Seattle Art Museum.

Mui Poopoksakul talks about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation, with Saskia Vogel, moderated by Laura Goode.

Marian Schwartz joins Sabrina Jaszi to talk about translating contemporary Russian literature and her latest translations of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands and Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die.

Mui Poopoksakul travels to Boston and New York to talk about her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright, the first-ever novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation.

Four translators of writers from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Martinique, and Haiti share their translations and speak about what has drawn them into the luminescent world of Caribbean writing.

Tonight belongs to translation! Join us for a party and performances by Gregory Pardlo, Mónica de la Torre, Jennifer Grotz, Curtis Bauer, Will Schutt, and others to celebrate 25 years of Two Lines publishing groundbreaking international literature.

Celebrate 25 years of Two Lines AWP! Join past contributors and editors for a reading and discussion of the evolution of translation in the last two decades and of where this field is headed.

Two Lines Press is going to AWP in Portland! Here’s where you can find us:

Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea and translator Alta L. Price discuss An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence, moderated by Sarah Rose Etter.

Join Two Lines Press at Word Week, Noe Valley’s annual literary festival!

Edgar Garbelotto discusses his translation of João Gilberto Noll’s Lord with Susan Harris, editorial director of Words Without Borders. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion.

Translators Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris join forces to discuss “one of Brazil’s true literary icons” (Literary Hub)—João Gilberto Noll—celebrating the release of Lord, Two Lines Press’s third novel from the Brazilian legend called “one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature” by Guernica magazine.