Past Events
Considered by many to be the greatest among a new generation of Indonesian novelists, Eka Kurniawan will discuss his books Beauty is a Wound and Man Tiger with Center founder Olivia Sears and his translator Annie Tucker.
Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco, CA
Translators Ben Paloff and Alex Zucker discuss Paloff’s translation of Richard Weiner’s The Game for Real.
Community Bookstore | 143 Seventh Avenue | Brooklyn, NY
We welcome author and translator Benjamin Paloff to Diesel Bookstore in Oakland, California to celebrate the publication of his translation of The Game for Real by Richard Weiner.
Diesel, A Bookstore | 5433 College Avenue | Oakland, CA
A classic Chinese silent film screening at the 2015 San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Castro Theatre | 429 Castro Street | San Francisco, CA
Mexican author Mario Bellatín and translator/publisher David Shook discuss Jacob the Mutant.
Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco, CA
Translator Daniel Balderston discusses Silvina Ocampo’s Thus Were Their Faces.
Center for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street, Suite 700 | San Francisco, CA
Author Horacio Castellanos Moya and Translator Katherine Silver discuss his newest book.
Make Out Room | 3225 22nd Street | San Francisco, CA
They’ll discuss the translation of Herrera’s newest book, Signs of Life Preceding the End of the Universe.
Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francsico, CA
Join us to celebrate the release of Two Lines issues 21 and 22.
Viracocha | 998 Valencia Street | San Francisco, CA
Join the translator and publisher of Elena Ferrante to discuss her books.
Center for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street, Suite 700 | San Francisco, CA
We’ll host Karen Emmerich, the English-language’s pre-eminent Greek translator.
Center for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street, Suite 700 | San Francisco, CA
Translators Peter Bush and Katherine Silver discuss Catalan author Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook.
B44 Catalan Bistro | 44 Belden Place | San Francisco, CA
What do we lose when a language dies? What does it take to save a language?
The Exploratorium | Pier 15 | San Francisco, CA
Translator Sean Cotter will discuss his translation of one of Romania’s most celebrated authors.
Center for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street, Suite 700 | San Francisco, CA
Join Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein and Two Voices for an Evening of Literary Experimentation!
The Lab | 2948 16th Street | San Francisco, CA
Poet and translator Malena Mörling former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass read contemporary Swedish poetry in translation.
Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco, CA
On her translation of Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below.
Center for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street, Suite 700 | San Francisco, CA
A night with Danish author Naja Marie Aidt.
Oakland | San Francisco
Denise led a three-hour class, where students had the chance to both work on a translation and workshop it with their fellow students.
Center for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street, Suite 700 | San Francisco, CA
Two Lines Press hosted Greek sensation Amanda Michalopoulou and her talented translator Karen Emmerich for an intimate, alcohol-drenched reading from her latest novel, Why I Killed My Best Friend.
The Book Club of California | 312 Sutter Street | San Francisco, CA