Past Events

In conjunction with The Bridge reading series in New York City, we celebrated the translators behind two astonishing new French translations from Two Lines Press.

We teamed up with Quiet Lightning for an hour-long smörgåsbord of creative writing and translation.

Peruvian novelist, journalist, and one of Granta magazine’s best young novelists in Spanish, Santiago Roncagliolo, and his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman, will discuss Roncagliolo’s latest short-story collection, Hi, This is Conchita and Other Stories (Two Lines Press) as well as issues in contemporary literature.

We collaborated with Litquake to celebrate that rare literary genius that was Clarice Lispector.

Join Robert Hass, Gary Snyder, and Poetry Inside Out students for poetry readings, world-class jazz, and We are Nature open mic at the 18th annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival in Berkeley.

Help kick off the Temescal in Situ neighborhood visual art and poetry project in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood.

The Center for the Art of Translation and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura present a celebration of 20th-century Italian poetry!

Join us to celebrate the birth of Two Lines Press, a new, expanded publishing venture from the Center for the Art of Translation. We’re launching with two outstanding titles: All My Friends by Marie NDiaye, the youngest person ever to be shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (translated by Jordan Stump), and Hi, This Is Conchita by Granta “Best Young Spanish-Language Novelist” Santiago Roncagliolo (translated by Edith Grossman).

Seven renowned novelists (Yiyun Li, Ann Packer, Vikram Chandra, Ayelet Waldman, Anita Amirrezvani, Sylvia Brownrigg, and K.M. Soehnlein) share the great world literature that has inspired them.

Kids translating Basho? You bet!

Russian author of Maidenhair, Mikhail Shishkin, and his translator Marian Schwartz, in conversation with the Center’s Scott Esposito.

Turkish translator Aron Aji talks about translating a masterwork by 20th-century Turkish author Bilge Karasu, often referred as “the sage of Turkish literature.”

Acclaimed poet Paul Legault reads from his new McSweeney’s book, The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems.

We host Bill Johnston, the recipient of the 2011 Best Translated Book Award and the 2011 PEN Translation Award.

Join acclaimed Berkeley poet Camille Dungy to celebrate the newest volume of TWO LINES, titled Passageways at the lovely Berkeley bookstore Mrs. Dalloway’s.

Join author Naja Marie Aidt and translators Erica Mena and Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren for spirited readings from the new volume of TWO LINES, Passageways.

The Center is teams up with Litquake to present a reading from two vastly different but equally powerful translations, showcasing the talents of Mary Jo Bang and Graham Foust.

Join us on Monday, August 13 at 7:00 pm for a rare opportunity to see legendary translator Margaret Jull Costa discuss her work with Nobel laureate Jose Saramago.

We at the Center are honored to offer Bay Area translation-lovers a chance to learn from one of the very best. On August 12, we’ll be offering a workshop with Margaret Jull Costa.

In this one-time-only translation workshop you will learn from one of the legends of literary translation. Costa is the translator of Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, Javier Marias, Bernardo Atxaga, and many more.

Join the staff and friends of the Center for the Art of Translation for a special evening on translating fairy tales! Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tatar take the audience down the slim path into the dark woods with readings from classic and contemporary fairytales.