Past Events

Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman join us to talk about reenacting trauma and narrating death in Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of  Death, translated by Don Mee Choi.

Award-winning translator Megan McDowell joins Sarah Rose Etter to talk about translating Mouthful of Birds, a collection of spellbinding and eerily unsettling short stories from the Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream.

Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod join Silvia Oviedo López to discuss their translation of Decals: Complete Early Poems by Oliverio Girondo, an important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and others.

Due to poor air quality– the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the Bay Area is projected to be “very unhealthy”– our event with Marian Schwartz to discuss Horsemen of the Sands has been canceled.  Not all Russian literature is an 800-page tome from the 19th century. Marian Schwartz joins Sabrina Jaszi to talk about translating contemporary Russian literature and her latest translation of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands. 

French writer and filmmaker Éric Vuillard talks about The Order of the Day, winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt and translated into English by Mark Polizotti.

Argentine author María Sonia Cristoff and translator Katherine Silver discuss False Calm, a journey through the ghost towns of Patagonia.

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.

Jordan Stump talks about translating Marie NDiaye with Jennifer Solheim.

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.