Past Events

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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.

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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.

Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger talks about Out of the Sugar Factory, translated by Megan Ewing, with Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors.

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 celebrated Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger and American writer Kate Zambreno for a conversation about Megan Ewing’s new English translation of Elmiger’s Out of the Sugar Factory at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY.

One of the most distinctive voices in Japanese poetry, Hiromi Itō, and translator Jeffrey Angles join Bay Area poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra to present The Thorn Puller, by Hiromi Itō and translated by Jeffrey Angles at The Ruby SF.

Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger and translator Megan Ewing talk about Out of the Sugar Factory at Ann Arbor’s Literati Bookstore.

Translators Olivia Sears and Forrest Gander talk about the unique challenges and rewards of translating poetry with CJ Evans at the Bay Area Book Festival.