Past Events

Join us to celebrate the release of the follow-up to Quiet Creature, Noll’s career-defining novel Atlantic Hotel.

A discussion of Mongolian poet Tseveedorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era with translator Simon Wickhamsmith.

The Center for the Art of Translation and Graywolf Press present acclaimed Korean author Han Yujoo in conversation with Two Lines Press’s Scott Esposito.

Join us to celebrate the release of Filip Springer’s History of a Disappearance, translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye.

The Center for the Art of Translation is pleased to present our inaugural “Day of Translation” with the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center.

A conversation about the latest book in translation from Chinese writer Can Xue.

Hear the Center’s board president and founder, Olivia Sears, and Poetry Inside Out program director, Mark Hauber, discuss the various ways in which translation can touch society: as an art form, as an educational tool, and through community events.

Join us for an evening of international literature at Amado’s in the Mission!

Participating students from Worcester, Massachusetts, will present their research on “productive diversity” in Poetry Inside Out.

Chris Andrews on his in-depth and wide-ranging work with Argentine maestro César Aira.

Celebrating the release of prize-winning Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi’s latest book, In Praise of Defeat, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

A discussion with Volker Langbehn, Professor of German at San Francisco State University, about the release of German author Arno Schmidt’s Bottom’s Dream, translated by John E. Woods.

A celebration of Julio Cortázar with our favorite Bay Area translators.

We help kick off the 39th annual American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Conference with an Opening Night reception at Parliament, in Oakland’s historic district.

We host a 10-city U.S. tour with A Spare Life author Lidija Dimkovska in October 2016!

Japanese poet and performance artist Yoshimasu Gozo and poet Forrest Gander was in San Francisco for a performance and discussion of Gozo’s work, including his poetry collection Alice Iris Red Horse.

Translator Mark Polizzotti celebrates publication of a limited edition of his translation of Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet.

Translator Bela Shayevich discusses her translation of Secondhand Time, by 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich.

The Center for the Art of Translation is proud to be one of the sponsors of the 2016 Bay Area Book Festival, June 4 & 5 in downtown Berkeley.

We’re thrilled to be sponsoring screenings of two classic French silent films at this year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Edward Gauvin (translator of The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome and others) masterfully translated the intertitles for René Clair’s The Italian Straw Hat (Un chapeau du paille italien) and Les Deux Timides.