Past Events
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
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.
McNally-Jackson Bookstore | 52 Prince Street | New York, NY
We teamed up with Quiet Lightning for an hour-long smörgåsbord of creative writing and translation.
The Lab | 2948 16th Street | San Francisco, CA
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.
Americas Society | 680 Park Avenue | New York, NY
We collaborated with Litquake to celebrate that rare literary genius that was Clarice Lispector.
Hotel Rex | San Francisco, CA
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.
Civic Center Park | Martin Luther King Jr. Way at Center Street | Berkeley, CA
Help kick off the Temescal in Situ neighborhood visual art and poetry project in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood.
Temescal Branch, Oakland Public Library | 5205 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA
The Center for the Art of Translation and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura present a celebration of 20th-century Italian poetry!
Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco | 814 Montgomery Street | San Francisco, CA
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).
Intersection for the Arts | 925 Mission Street | San Francisco, CA
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.
The City Club | 155 Sansome Street | San Francisco, CA
Kids translating Basho? You bet!
The Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street | San Francisco, CA
Russian author of Maidenhair, Mikhail Shishkin, and his translator Marian Schwartz, in conversation with the Center’s Scott Esposito.
Hotel Rex | 562 Sutter Street | San Francisco, CA
Turkish translator Aron Aji talks about translating a masterwork by 20th-century Turkish author Bilge Karasu, often referred as “the sage of Turkish literature.”
111 Minna Street Gallery | San Francisco, CA
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.
Make Out Room | 3225 22nd Street | San Francisco, CA
We host Bill Johnston, the recipient of the 2011 Best Translated Book Award and the 2011 PEN Translation Award.
111 Minna Street Gallery | San Francisco, CA