Past Events

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.

Iranian author Yaghoub Yadali read from his latest book, Rituals of Restlessness, at Oakland’s Diesel: A Bookstore on May 19. The book is the first novel to be released in Phoneme Media’s City of Asylum book series in partnership with the Pittsburgh non-profit City of Asylum, which provides shelter for exiled writers.

Translators Doug Slaymaker and Akiko Takenaka  discuss the Japanese, post-Fukushima novel Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure by Hideo Furukawa.

Chris Clarke talks about his translation of French writer and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s In the Cafe of Lost Youth.

We invite you to join us for an intimate, glamorous evening of literature at the private, wood-lined The Office, recently named one of 7x7s Best Private Dining Rooms in San Francisco.

We are very happy to be bringing the acclaimed Catalan author Toni Sala back to the U.S. to tour for his novel The Boys.

Editor and translator Valerie Miles talks about her translation of Enrique Vila-Matas’s Because She Never Asked, and Vila-Matas’s other works.

Translator Edward Gauvin and Center for the Art of Translation Executive Director Michael Holtmann talk about French author Serge Brussolo’s The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome.

Translator Will Vanderhyden and Chilean author Carlos Labbé discuss Labbé’s novels Loquela and Navidad & Matanza.

Translator Isabel Fargo Cole in San Francisco to celebrate the publication of Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Sleep of the Righteous.

We’re partnering with Versal journal’s “Verso” Live Journal series in Amsterdam.

This event will feature Editor Margarita Osipian hosting visiting poet Megan Fernandes and a reading from Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Sleep of the Righteous by translator Isabel Fargo Cole.

We’re celebrating Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Sleep of the Righteous again, this time in New York City!

“[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allen Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany.” — Los Angeles Review of Books

“Beautiful, dream-like stories of the pain and wonder of becoming oneself.” — Die Zeit

A discussion of publishing literature from around the world and readings from recent Two Lines Press publications.

Korean author and translator Don Mee Choi talks about contemporary Korean poetry and her work translating Kim Hyesoon.

Join Two Lines Press to celebrate the release of The Boys, our first release in Catalan, with author Toni Sala and translator Mara Faye Lethem.