Past Events

Award-winning Korean author Kim Sagwa and memoirist Sisonke Msimang discuss the complexities of young girls on the path to womanhood, from South Korea to South Africa, Canada, and beyond.

CAT is sponsoring a weekend of global programming at Litquake this year.

Kim Sagwa travels to 7 cities to talk about Mina, translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton.

On the occasion of the publication of the long awaited final installment in the series—Book Six, which confronts the impact of blurring the line between private and public—the Norwegian writer makes a rare West Coast appearance to share his most recent work on the ALOUD stage. Join us for a conversation between Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz and Knausgaard on this monumental work and the radical act of total transparency.

Acclaimed Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel joins Brad Johnson to talk about her latest novel, After the Winter, brought into English by Rosalind Harvey.

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.

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).

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.

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

Jordan Stump talks about translating Marie NDiaye’s My Heart Hemmed In.

David Larsen discusses his translation of 10th-century Arabic lexicographer Ibn Khālawayh’s Names of the Lion with Stephen Sparks.

In celebration of Women in Translation month, Jordan Stump, translator of Marie NDiaye’s My Heart Hemmed In, will be in Chicago and Minneapolis for three back-to-back events.

Jordan Stump talks about translating Marie NDiaye with Jennifer Solheim.

Join us for happy hour to celebrate the release of our third book by Marie NDiaye, My Heart Hemmed In, translated from the French by Jordan Stump.

Celebrated Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera discusses his new book, Kingdom Cons, with Bay Area writer Caille Millner.

Build and strengthen the community of progressive educators in the Bay Area!

We’re sponsoring a panel at the Bay Area Book Fest.

Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival!

Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival!