Past Events

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.

Writers Alexandra Kleeman, Giada Scodellaro, and Jennifer Wilson talk about the influential work of the French author with her primary English translator, Jordan Stump.

P&T Knitwear welcomes Jeremy Tiang for a benefit event in support of Yu & Me Books, to discuss their translation of Xu Zechen’s book Beijing Sprawl with YZ Chin.

This event has been canceled. 

Third Place Books Ravenna welcomes translator Eric Abrahamsen to their Seattle store. Abrahamsen will be discussing renowned Chinese author Xu Zechen’s Beijing Sprawl, which he co-translated with Jeremy Tiang.

Join the American Library in Paris, The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, and the Center for the Art of Translation for conversations across time, place, culture, and literary tradition, with live audiences in Paris, Brooklyn, and San Francisco.

Join author Carmen Boullosa and translator Samantha Schnee for a conversation about The Book of Eve, a feminist retelling of the Book of Genesis and a striking example of multi-layered translation.