Past Events

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.

Two Lines Press and Powell’s Books on Hawthorne have collaborated to bring The Boys author Toni Sala to Portland for a bookstore reading! Sala will read from his first Two Lines Press title.

This two-day workshop will introduce classroom teachers to the Poetry Inside Out language arts curriculum and prepare them to implement the program in their classrooms.

As part of the annual Litquake literary festival, we welcome Baboon author Naja Marie Aidt back to the Bay Area!

“Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature.”
— László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize

Join us on October 19 at Brecht-Haus in Berlin to celebrate one of Germany’s most essential authors. Although the late Wolfgang Hilbig was no stranger to acclaim in his native Germany, he never had a full-length book published in English. That changes this year, as two Hilbig titles see their English-language release: The Sleep of the Righteous (Two Lines Press) and ‘I’ (Seagull Books).

This two-day workshop will introduce classroom teachers to the Poetry Inside Out language arts curriculum and prepare them to implement the program in their classrooms.

Katrina Dodson discusses her translation of The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector.