Past Events

Rebecca Gisler joins Jordan Stump for a reading from About Uncle and a conversation with Stephen Sparks.

Join us for a virtual party to celebrate the longlist of the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. Included on the longlist is Jazmina Barrera’s Cross-Stitch!

Tommy Orange talks with Linnea Axelsson, Alexis Wright, and Saskia Vogel about their novels; the past, present, and future of indigeneity and colonialism; and writing across time, place, and form.

Mireille Gansel joins Joan Seliger Sidney for a reading from Soul House and a conversation about the nature of language and the splendors and limitations of translation with Olivia Sears.

Join Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, and Leanne Shapton for a conversation about travel, art, identity, and translation.

P&T Knitwear in Manhattan welcomes Jazmina Barrera to present her debut novel with Hannah Assadi.

Books Are Magic in Brooklyn welcomes Jazmina Barrera to present her debut novel with Chloé Cooper Jones

Pilsen Community Books in Chicago welcomes Jazmina Barrera to present her debut novel with Amanda Goldblatt.

The Wild Detectives in Dallas welcomes Jazmina Barrera to present her debut novel with Vicky Sanz.

Green Apple Books on the Park welcomes Jazmina Barrera to present her debut novel at The Ruby SF with Julían Delgado Lopera.

Mexican author Jazmina Barrera presents her debut novel, translated by Christina MacSweeney.

Sign up for a teacher workshop to bring Poetry Inside Out poetry and translation lessons to your classroom this school year.

This event has been canceled.

As part of its 70th Anniversary programming City Lights celebrates literature in translation with Gabriela Alemán, Dick Cluster, Gillian Conoloy, Elaine Katzenberger, Emilie Moorehouse, and Mark Schafer. Moderated by Olivia Sears.

Coffee, croissants, and translating the classics with Emily Wilson, one of the most celebrated literary translators of our time.

Translator Mia Spangenberg joins Scandinavia House’s Nordic Book Club Online for a special talk on The Red Book of Farewells by Finnish author Pirkko Saisio.

Join us for happy hour cocktails as Magdalena Edwards performs one of Maria Judite de Carvalho’s unsparing short stories, translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa.

Enjoy a wide variety of writers and translated works at Litquake’s Words Around the World series of international events, co-sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation.

International luminaries Astrid Roemer, Carlos Fonseca, and Norman Erikson Pasaribu come together to discuss the precarity of dislocation, memory, and desire at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Coffee, croissants, and Caribbean literature in translation with Marie-Célie Agnant, Gaël Octavia, Danielle Legros Georges, and Myriam J. A. Chancy.