Past Events

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.

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.